Quotes About Beginning

I'm a comedian at the beginning and the end of the day. I'm not affiliated with any campaign, nor do I generally find politics interesting enough to plan to be involved.

I think you're a comedian as soon as you start. I don't think there's a moment where you become a full comic.

My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

'13 Reasons Why' was my first professional job out of college, so I don't have much to compare it to.

If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.

If you look right from the beginning of the season I've been very competitive.

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

When I was 11, I had just started my comprehensive school.

My spiritual journey began at conception.

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'

I confess I had butterflies doing the first BBC 'Politics Live' of 2020. It felt like the first day back at school.

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

Imgur has always been profitable right from the very beginning, and the only time I ever had to spend money on it was for the initial domain name because as soon as I released it, people liked it so much that they were donating, and so Imgur survived for the first six months just purely on donations.

The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.

I think I have a sense right in the beginning of how big an idea it is and how much room it needs, and, almost more importantly, how long it would sustain anybody's interest.

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

They always say start at the bottom if you want to learn something. But suppose you want to learn to swim?

I started cooking 30-something years ago. When I was 14, 15, I was a short-order cook in a snack bar. That was at a place called the Gran Centurions. It was an Italian-American swim club my parents belonged to.

I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

We came together in such an organic way. We felt we had something special even when we were starting in the outskirts of Western Sydney.