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After 9/11, I was like many people in New York City and got a little depressed. I began to check myself into The Waldorf Astoria… — Kristin Chenoweth
I'm not even sure I like surgery, but I like what it does, I like the effects. I like to be able to give people… — Benjamin Carson
Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim. — Elie Wiesel
The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. — Alexander Pope
Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. — Alexander Pope
Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought… — Alexander Pope
I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it… — Georges Braque
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our… — Unknown Author
All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public… — Bertrand Russell
I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces. — Henri Matisse
What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new… — Georges Braque
I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not… — Georges Braque
Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life. — William Styron
Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began. — Lloyd Alexander
Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever. — Paul Gauguin
Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while,… — Claude Monet
There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country. — Daniel Schorr
The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special… — Sherwood Anderson
And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such. — Andrew Wyeth
Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value. — Alain de Botton
It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane. — Alain de Botton
I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an… — William Manchester
Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about… — Sean William Scott
2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame. — Halle Berry
I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight… — Tanith Lee

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