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I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it. -- Julia Leigh
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material. -- Tommy Chong
I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times. -- Norman Lear
While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars. -- Jim Ryun
There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction. -- Jim Piddock
In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage. -- Bobby Brown
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire. -- Pat Conroy
At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand. -- Maurice Allais
As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act. -- Eli Roth
Government is truly beginning to embrace the power of innovation for the people and by the people, the idea that if government collaborates openly with and unleashes the ingenuity of the public, it will get much more done, much faster and at much lower cost than if government acted alone. -- Todd Park
Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation. -- David A. Bednar
I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman. -- Lady Gregory
In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. -- Henry Miller
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. -- Edward Hirsch
The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them. -- Kathleen Norris
The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution. -- Marco Rubio
Loving everything about yourself - even the 'unacceptable' - is an act of personal power. It is the beginning of healing. -- Christiane Northrup
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. -- Erich Fromm
I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable. -- Steve McQueen
Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation. -- Sholem Asch
An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. This is what it means to be educated. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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