#before

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #around #been #before #big

So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line. ↗

— James H. Douglas

#before #bottom #bottom line #budget #challenges

I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#before #belle #fault #feel #greatly

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#before #college #exercises #games #ourselves

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible. ↗

— Rita Dove

#before #evidence #existed #front #imagine

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before. ↗

— David Duchovny

#age #before #ever #internet #media

Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#beginning #best #certainly #gossip #had

The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#bin #bombing #center #first #had

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade. ↗

— Joan Didion

#after #anyway #before #begun #berkeley

I had actually been going to Hawaii for quite a while before I ever picked up the uke. I think with anything new you're going to get more enjoyment out of it if it comes to you quickly, and the uke facilitates that. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#anything #been #before #comes #enjoyment