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  • Let go of your past. Start making history! -- Julie Connor
  • Quit counting time and start making time count -- Zig Ziglar
  • I didn't start making music in order to be famous. -- Mark Ronson
  • All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money. -- RuPaul
  • Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes. -- Roy Bennett
  • If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you. -- John Sheridan
  • As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour. -- Phil Collins
  • Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma. -- Paul Vixie
  • You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off. -- Robert Breault
  • A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one. -- Twyla Tharp
  • I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know? -- Hunter Hayes
  • It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices. -- Debbie Ford
  • Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. -- Julie Delpy
  • I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write. -- Chris Van Allsburg
  • I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money. -- Anna Friel
  • It's fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. I'm going to start making them count. -- Tim Tharp
  • Stop making a relationship about what you get and start making it about what you give, for what you give is what you'll get in return. -- Rob Liano
  • I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen. -- Chanel Iman
  • You've got so much confidence if you start making big putts because you know you just need to hit the greens, and you've got yourself a good opportunity for the birdies. -- Louis Oosthuizen
  • The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one. -- Rob Lowe
  • Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It's resonant because it is made of the stuff that we see every day. It's familiar. It reflects our reality. -- Elliott Hundley
  • My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the books took off, and the beans started coming in! -- Jonathan Stroud
  • You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free. -- Morris Chestnut
  • In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure. -- David Friedman
  • My writing process is such that a story will be in my head for awhile, and I'll start making notes on my computer. I create character sheets that include a character's past, fears, goals and ambitions. -- Tracie Peterson
  • I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker. -- Terry Gilliam
  • But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. -- Colin Powell
  • I never know going in if I've even got a movie to make. Once you start making a film, you hope there's going to be enough material! My job as a director is always to push for more. -- Asif Kapadia
  • We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time. -- Ben Gibbard
  • If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions. -- William Gibson
  • There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice. -- Angeles Arrien
  • I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days. -- Jeffrey Jones
  • We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday. -- Michelle Obama
  • I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture. -- Olivier Theyskens
  • Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it has become a lazy profession in regard to its relationship to the artists and the vigorous state of art making. -- Michelle Grabner
  • My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that. -- Trey Parker
  • The first thing I tell clients is get off the couch! Just start making some small lifestyle changes such as walking to work instead of driving or taking the stairs instead of the lift. The small things you can change all add up. -- Jessie Pavelka
  • I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns. -- Shia LaBeouf
  • Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff. -- Benny Blanco
  • On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it. -- Warren Buffett
  • There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. The zoologist now has to start making comparisons. Where else is nudity at a premium. -- Desmond Morris
  • Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist. -- Patrick Stump
  • We can ...start making our way back to the Father. We should do so with as much haste and humility as we can summon. Along the way we can count our many blessings and we can applaud the accomplishments of others. Best of all we can serve others. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
  • When you do a lot of interviews, you find yourself telling the same stories over and over. After you do it for a whole day, you say, 'Christ, I've said this five times today.' It gets fun when you get so bored you start making it all up. -- Christian Bale
  • I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I came to L.A., I became a professional model. It sounds kind of crazy, but in L.A. was when I was able to start making a living from modeling. -- Melissa Ordway
  • Internet marketing entrepreneurs have truly opened my eyes to just how important a quick turnaround time can be. Often times, an interview they conduct with me today is online by the next morning. The interviewee is then able to start making money less than 24 hours after the initial interview. -- Marc Ostrofsky
  • Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to. -- Paul Pierce
  • Some people are just really goofy kind of guitar acts, and they go out and do these colleges and start making a fortune pretty early on. And other people - I know guys who are great comics, who've done the Letterman show many times, who still barely pay their bills. -- Greg Giraldo
  • Making art is different for everyone. -- China Chow
  • I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. -- Masaharu Morimoto
  • What I'm good at is making art. -- Jock Sturges
  • Education is the art of making man ethical. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Love-making is an art which must be studied. -- Ivor Novello
  • The goal of art-making in general is communication. -- Will Cotton
  • Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. -- Nobu Matsuhisa
  • Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. -- Frank Zappa
  • I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely. -- Jenny Holzer
  • I don't like watching people work if they're making art. -- David Duchovny
  • I never thought about doing anything other than making art. -- Kim Gordon
  • I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art! -- Bear Grylls
  • Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art. -- Eddi Reader
  • Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. -- Isaac Newton
  • I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. -- Robert Rodriguez
  • Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. -- Andy Warhol
  • What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. -- Steve Martin
  • I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art. -- John Hughes
  • Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better. -- Philipp Meyer
  • Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Don't think about making art... -- Andy Warhol
  • Making art is a journey. -- Meinrad Craighead
  • Making reality real is art's responsibility. -- Eudora Welty
  • Making art is an act of faith. -- Julia Cameron
  • I'm not making art, I'm making sushi -- Masaharu Morimoto
  • Logic is the art of making truth prevail. -- Jean de la Bruyere
  • Real success is making art your whole life. -- Kay WalkingStick
  • Making art in America is about saving one's soul. -- Charles Simic
  • The noblest art is that of making others happy -- P. T. Barnum
  • Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry. -- Hans Haacke
  • Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold. -- Walter Darby Bannard
  • Engineering is the art or science of making practical. -- Samuel Florman
  • Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant -- Samuel Johnson
  • Making art is like humour - very moment dependent. -- Michael Denton
  • The art of making art, is putting it together.... -- Stephen Sondheim
  • I spent my life making fashion an art form. -- Charles James
  • Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable. -- Perry Brass
  • Art consists in making others feel what we feel. -- Fernando Pessoa
  • What matters in art is not thinking but making. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The making of art is no different than prayer. -- Rainn Wilson
  • Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it. -- Frank Zappa
  • Economy is the art of making the most of life. -- Gary Becker
  • There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art. -- Gish Jen
  • Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls. -- Julia Cameron
  • I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself. -- Kiki Smith
  • If you're making art, you are not separate from your brand. -- Danielle LaPorte
  • I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it. -- Jock Sturges
  • In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art. -- Robert Mondavi
  • Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art -- John Gruber
  • The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun! -- Max Elliott Slade
  • Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt -- Christian Boltanski
  • Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally ... -- Marie Bashkirtseff
  • Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. -- Helen Rowland
  • You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art]. -- Chath Piersath
  • A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. -- Guy Davenport
  • Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself -- Helen Rowland
  • Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that? -- Steve Guttenberg
  • Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom. -- Ilya Kabakov
  • Success and the art of making music are two different things for me. -- Norah Jones
  • The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. -- John Keats
  • Making art is about accepting what's going on around you and turning it into -- John Frusciante
  • The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible. -- Jean Dubuffet
  • Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest. -- Thomas Sowell
  • Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences. -- John Cage
  • Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good. -- Wayne White
  • Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it. -- Walter Darby Bannard
  • All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes. -- Ernst Gombrich
  • We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die. -- Sean Kinney
  • As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it. -- Damien Hirst
  • In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know. -- Lawrence Weiner
  • Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought. -- Bennett Cerf
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