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Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers, they themselves are… — Betty Williams
It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting and all the… — Barack Obama
You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need. — Betty Friedan
Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with. — Ansen Dibell
Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin. — Stanley Schmidt
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my… — John Green
Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That… — David Eddings
I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind,… — Erskine Caldwell
If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will… — Joseph Campbell
If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his… — Allan W. Eckert
You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Many of us were taught that no sentence should begin with "but." If that's what you learned, unlearn it - there's no stronger word at… — William Zinsser
I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words… — Maurice Sendak
I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere,… — Saul Bellow
It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting… — Richard L. Evans
When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider anything else to… — Cecil O. Samuelson
Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have… — Ben Shahn
Making pictures is a very simple act. There is no great secret in photography...schools are a bunch of crap. You just need practice and application… — Elliott Erwitt
My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved… — Galen Rowell
Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art… — Susan Sontag

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