#star

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that. ↗

— Chet Atkins

#apprenticeship #formula #give #i #logical

I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes. ↗

— Dave Attell

#doing #emotionally #flinching #getting #i

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#connected #could #draw #early #i

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#beginning #changing #chapter #clause #couple

The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall. ↗

— Jean-Marc Ayrault

#broken #down #engine #france #into

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip. ↗

— Nader al-Masri

#everyone #feel #freedom #gaza #i

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#baghdad #commit #encourage #i #i am

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#doing #had #handing #him #i

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence. ↗

— Joe Baca

#commit #crimes #education #grade #graduate

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#because #i #ignore #in the past #live