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“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take use all the way.”

Thinking Way Mind Mean Use Acceptance Students Excuse Acknowledge Contradiction No Excuses Fuzzy Seminars

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.”

Firsts Song Natural Cadence

Author:Pusha T

“When I start a story, I don't know where it's going.”

Knows Stories

Author:Stephen King

“When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.”

Book Ideas No Idea

Author:Jon Krakauer

“When I start appreciating, I look at it like business. I start by appreciating life itself. After all, life is really a gift. It might not always seem like that's true, but it is. If nothing else, it's a gift of discovery. So I appreciate that!”

Ifs Looks Seems Might Life Is Discovery Appreciate Appreciation Appreciate Life

Author:Doc Childre

“When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance.”

Thinking Way Mean Ends Interesting Conversation My Friends Asking Instance Dictionary Interesting Conversation

Author:Andrew Bird

“When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.”

Ifs Feels Art Body Process Vulnerable Vulnerability Fearful

Author:Wanda Koop

“When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.”

Writing Mind Ends Next Novel Notes Register Of My Mind

Author:Richard Russo

“When I start getting old, I'm going to start ending my prayers like, "Lord, it'd be a good day to die." I don't wanna be 130 years old with a diaper on, all my friends dead and gone. I wanna get to heaven, come get me!”

Years Dies Heaven Prayer Lord Gone My Friends Getting Old Good Day Diapers

Author:Suge Knight

“When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."”

Writing Looks Different Asks Class Pieces Students Paper Tables Signatures

Author:Frank Gehry

“When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time... So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas... I don't worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.”

Thinking Knows Long Has Beens Book Ideas Worry Subjects Periods Notes Busy Theme Subconscious Occasional

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with. My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something. It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.”

Needs Writing Ideas Film Grows Numbers Tree Particular Bears Projects Fruit Scripts Nurture Sprouts

Author:Akira Kurosawa

“When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.”

People Knows Next Sound Rollercoaster

Author:Dick Dale

“When I start something I bring my A-game - I assume I'm going to win.”

Games Winning Assuming

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“When I start something, I can never finish it. I just can’t dedicate myself to wanting or doing a thing for an extended period of time like that. I get started doing and before I reach the halfway mark, I’m wanting something else. But, really, it’s not me, it’s everything moving around me, changing and wreaking havoc on my wants. I decided it's easier to stop starting things because it’s impossible to keep up with the world, the way it constantly throws new stuff at you.”

Change Confusion Finding Yourself Starting Something New Constant Change Moving Fast

Author:Rasmenia Massoud

Source: Tied Within

“When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.”

Thinking Trouble Boxes

Author:Dan Uggla

“When I start thinking, all is lost.”

Thinking Lost

Author:Paul Cezanne

“When I start to paint, it is real agony. I get nervous. The day before, I am already working up to it. Then I get to the studio and, once the image starts to emerge and come together, pleasure kicks in. And then you can see things that no other person can see.”

Persons Real Together Pleasure Anxiety Paint Studios Nervous Kicks Agony

Author:Luc Tuymans

“When I start to play a game I try to forget about previous games and try to concentrate on this game. This game is now the most important to me. But of course I am not a computer and you cannot simply press a button, delete, and everything you want to forget disappears automatically. But if you want to play well, it's important to concentrate on the now.”

Ifs Want Trying Wells Important Play Success Courses Games Forget Computer Presses Disappear Chess Buttons

Author:Vassily Ivanchuk

“When I start to think about all the things, I'm doing sometimes I just have to thank the man upstairs. Because I'm doing the morning show here in Chicago 5 days a week, and I have the syndicated radio show that's been going on now for several years. In addition we are in the midst of taping 13 episodes of a television show-The Legends of Jazz: The Masters of jazz on PBS-TV.”

Thinking Men Years Sometimes Shows Morning Week Television He Man Masters Tvs Jazz Radio Midst Chicago Legends Episodes Television Shows Upstairs Pbs

Author:Ramsey Lewis

“When I start to write a song, I have the words and I have the melody, and then it's just a matter of making it to the end. I think if I have something that I could identify as a talent, it would be that I can finish a song. I kind of know intuitively where the melody should go.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Writing Kind I Can Ends Matter Would Be Song Talent Melody

Author:Lou Barlow

“When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.”

Writing Important Different Done Song Fall Creative Strange Habit Familiar Convincing

Author:Nick Cave

“When I start to write and record a track, I always think about where it is supposed to take place, what kind of room that is, and what kind of atmosphere it should have. Also how it should be performed, and by what kind of musicians or vocalists. I work in a very theatrically minded sort of way.”

Thinking Writing Kind Musician Track Atmosphere

Author:Karin Dreijer Andersson

“When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.”

Want Writing

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"”

Want Writing Kind Book Stories Asks Opening Instance

Author:Julie Andrews

“When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.”

Ifs World Writing Firsts Artist Reading Found Expression Romantic Notion If I Could Dislike Romantic Love

Author:John McGahern

“When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.”

Knows Song Waiting Behinds Tunes

Author:Ryan Adams

“When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus.”

Kind I Can Stuff Focus Listening Albums

Author:Jose James

“When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.”

Ideas Records Judging

Author:St. Lucia

“When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me figure out where they are living and I get to fill in the gaps with that and where we are. So when I get to the end of the process of composition, if I feel that I have really done my job, I have no idea what I've got - and I then spend essentially the rest of my life figuring out what it might mean.”

Writing Mean Done Character Helping Help Me Imaginary Composition

Author:William Gibson

“When I start writing a poem, I can usually know quite early on whether it's a lineated or prose poem, but I don't think I can explain how. It's like deciding whether to wear a skirt or a pair of pants.”

Thinking Knows Writing I Can Prose Pairs Pants Skirts

Author:Matthea Harvey

“When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.”

Thinking World Writing Done Models

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

Source: Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks

“When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes. I'm very rhythm conscious and I do enjoy repetition.”

Writing Enjoy Mistake Conscious Rhythm Chapters Repetition

Author:Jonathan Trigell

“When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.”

Ifs Writing Character Spirit Novel Prejudice Inquiry Good Character

Author:Ruth Ozeki

“When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.”

Writing Song Turns Process Intellectual Writing Songs

Author:Alanis Morissette

“When I start writing songs, and they come easily, I'm always very suspicious. That usually means they're reminding me of something I've already done before. When the songs become unsettling, and I feel anxious about what I'm doing, that usually means it's going to be more interesting later on when we actually record the stuff.”

Feels Writing Mean Done Song Stuff Interesting Records Anxious Suspicious Writing Songs Reminding

Author:Nick Cave

“When I start writing, I'll have a vague concept or I'll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.”

Writing Sometimes Song Goes On Concepts Titles Vague Get Real Convoluted

Author:Juliana Hatfield

“When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never know how my stories will end.”

Knows Writing Ends Stories Know How Conflict Come Up Unconscious Exploration My Thoughts

Author:Janet Fitch

“When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write it. So this is the genesis of my creation. If I want to know what happens, if I want to find out the secret, I have to write it.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Firsts Reality Might Happens Lines Secret Creation Thirds Genesis

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last sentence in mind. But, no book I've ever written has ever ended the way I thought it would. Characters disappear, others come forward. Once you start writing, everything changes.”

Way Writing Mind Book Sometimes Character Stories Feelings Might Lasts Written Shapes Sentences Disappear Things Change

Author:Paul Auster

“When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.”

Firsts Believe Ideas Form I Believe Space Building Materials Paper Architecture

Author:Peter Zumthor

“When I started 'DailyGrace,' I was dating a 26-year-old guy I thought was the funniest person in the world. My creation process every day was imagining him watching my videos and wondering, 'Will he laugh at this?' But somehow that's turned into an audience that's mostly 15-year-old girls.”

World Years Persons Guy Girl Process Wonder Audience Laughing Creation Dating Video Old Guys

Author:Grace Helbig

“When I started 'Third Watch,' I knew I was going to be with the firefighters and lifting, so I was doing yoga, running, and swimming - all at the same time. I didn't have a kid then. Now I don't have time for that. I want to spend time with my son and my husband, so it's mainly just yoga now.”

Want Running Kids Watches Son Husband Yoga Thirds My Husband My Son Swimming End Times Spend Time Lifting Firefighter

Author:Kim Raver

“When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luck.”

Years Littles Would Be Able Bits Talent Personality Little Bit Percent Years Ago Luck Odd Percentages

Author:Roger Moore

“When I started acting in the film industry when I was 16 years old, in 1980, I was going to all the revival theaters in Los Angeles. They were playing mostly films from the '60s and '70s, some from the early '20s and '30s, before that Hays commission. Those films did question things a lot, and there definitely was a switch in 1934. You can see very distinctly in 1934, it's harder to understand what the real culture was. Films made before 1934, you can really kind of see the racism, sexism, drug use, etc. that was going on at that time. And then it was all stopped.”

Years Kind Made Real Use Film Culture Acting Industry Drug Racism Harder Theater Etc Los Angeles Sexism Revival Film Industry Hay Drug Use Early 20s

Author:Crispin Glover

“When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you had to work 12 to 16 hours a day, knowing you had to be prepared, knowing you had to be ready, and it's very interesting because if you're an artist and you're creating, you can work very, very long hours but as you're putting out that love of creation, it's almost like you're charged by it, you're charged by the process of it.”

Ifs Long Artist Strong Process Hours Interesting Acting Knowing Creation Ready Like You Discipline Creating Prepared Be Prepared Very Interesting Long Hours

Author:Jaime King

“When I started acting, I was asked said, 'What's your dream?' 'What would you like to achieve?' I would say, 'Oh, I'd like to sit opposite DeNiro and hold my own.' But, you never think it's gonna happen.”

Thinking Said Dream Happens My Own Acting Achieve Opposites Your Dreams

Author:Sharon Stone

“When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'”

Said Acting

Author:Salma Hayek

“When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.”

Way Able Acting Talking Communicate

Author:Richard Gere

“When I started acting, my mom said, "If you want to go to film school and eventually direct, being on set is probably the best film school in the world." I'm incredibly grateful for the career I've had, but I was an actor to be a part of movies and TV, not the other way around.”

Ifs World Way Want Said School Film Actors Acting Careers Tvs Mom Direct Grateful My Mom Film School Best Film

Author:Jay Baruchel

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