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I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#been #before #finish #get #i

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#flat #hang #i #i always #real

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers! ↗

— Meg Cabot

#dad #dating #death #few #inspiration

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them! ↗

— Frank Capra

#film-makers #follow #start #them #trends

I never get recognized for 'Mean Girls.' I can be walking around with Daniel Franzese, who's in the movie and a friend of mine, and people will come up to him and start freaking out and have no idea who I am. ↗

— Lizzy Caplan

#around #come #daniel #friend #get

Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20. ↗

— Eric Carle

#i #i think #idea #least #novel

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#back #because #came #give #give me

The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers. ↗

— William Devane

#bottom line #come #eighth #ends #everybody

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common. ↗

— Stephen R. Donaldson

#common #dirt #i #i may not #lot

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. ↗

— Tony Dorsett

#bend #cruel #decide #either #everything