I Start Quotes

628 I Start quotes by 509 unique authors

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I… — Aldous Huxley
I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on… — Edward Weston
Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make myself comfortable -… — Artur Schnabel
The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse. — Issey Miyake
I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find what melodic line… — Mose Allison
All I know is when I start getting serious about songwriting... it's like a playground. All responsibilities slip away and you're with your essence. There… — Laura Nyro
In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too… — Dolly Parton
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak.… — Philip Roth
I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook,… — John Legend
Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle around on the… — Iron & Wine
It's like a puzzle or a painting or music. When I ski, it's like a song. I can hear the rhythm in my head, and… — Mikaela Shiffrin
Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted,… — David Anthony Durham
No escaping when I start, once I'm in I own your heart — Adam Lambert
There's a scene [in the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael] in my bedroom where I start eating Almond Roca. I was so young. It… — Winona Ryder
I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am… — Patty Duke
When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck. — Penelope Cruz
Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing. — Tom Cruise
I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally… — Emma Stone
I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to… — David Walliams
I start with the joke line and write backward. — Nipsey Russell
You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to… — Josh Lucas
If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains — Ron Silver
I gotta go on doin' it the way I see it...I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I'm here to… — Janis Joplin
My father was a Republican, and he couldn't stand what Franklin Delano Roosevelt was doing to the country. I always say I'm a mean-spirited narrow-minded… — Jane Russell

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