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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about god

At first, I was a little nervous with snakes, but once I started to handle them, I totally fell in love and felt an affinity toward them. They're very mysterious creatures. They live in solitude.

Quote by Aaliyah about animals, solitude, love

I got drunk for the first time at age 9. I used drugs for the first time in junior high. I started getting sober in 1983.

Quote by Willie Aames about drugs, time, age, olderness

My parents might say that I started telling stories when I learned to talk and decided that I'd become a writer the day I recognized a typewriter.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about parents, writers, day

It started in the U.K. A lot of kids in the U.K. were singing this Kylie Minogue song. The producers called me, saying, This show's huge. The queen clears her calendar. And I said, I'm really interested!

Quote by Paula Abdul

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about things

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst...

Quote by Randy Bachman about tears, night, time

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

Quote by Randy Bachman about rocks, music, work

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

Quote by Kathy Acker about dream, writing, use, people

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to...

Quote by Erykah Badu about things, reason, people, mind, day

I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth. You know, I was happy I was able to assess things a little bit better.

Quote by Erykah Badu about writing, happiness, things

And I started taking care of my body much more carefully than I used to. I don't smoke. I don't drink. And I eat healthy.

Quote by Oksana Baiul about smoke, drinking, body

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

Quote by Oksana Baiul about dance

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

Quote by Michael Bolton about fight

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Quote by Michael Caine about things, end

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

Quote by Michael Caine about theatre, old, olderness

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

Quote by Bette Davis about humor, actors, good, good luck, life

I started to feel that I had a large problem: my comic book characters didn't exist, and none of my readers would have seen them. The Escapist existed only within the covers of this book.

Quote by Michael Chabon

When I started working the Houdini vein, very quickly I realized that escapism is always a charge leveled against comics: why would one want to waste time reading them? It all belonged together.

Quote by Michael Chabon about time

When I started writing about the golem, I trusted that it belonged in the book just as I trusted that escape artistry belonged.

Quote by Michael Chabon about writing