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Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!
The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.
To frustrated Americans who have begun boycotting BP: Welcome to the club. It's great not to be the only member any more!
We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.
Talking about your work all the time and to open up, you have to do all that. I have begun to find my fun in that as well.
Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.
All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.
With the iPod - Apple's first successful stab at market dominance - Apple had begun with a high price but quickly dropped it.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
The war has begun between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi. Modi's rule is autocracy and Rahul's soul is democracy.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.
Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.
My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'
To me, it's a different kind of voter suppression to constantly try to make people feel like the election is over before it's even begun.
People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.
Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!
I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.
I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.
In many ways, my life has begun before I was born. It began in the moment my mother Malka walked out of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
The unraveling of America's long mid-century domestic consensus, which ran from about 1941 to 1966, had begun earlier, under Lyndon B. Johnson.
The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.
Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.
What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test.
Things I've been talking about for a long time as systemic problems, the American public has also begun to see something needs to be done down here.
I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God.
Trying to get somebody excited about learning and trying to get somebody to think in a moral context have begun to have a lot more significance to me.
I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun.
At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.
I've begun feeling that my responsibility is to the Earth. Our generation's war is climate change, so I've really been modifying how I eat and what I eat.
Any film I've made, I've only really begun to understand in the cutting room. That's when the story shows itself to you, like a wreck coming out of the sea.
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
It was in Dara'a that Syria's non-violent democratic movement had begun in 2011, with schoolboys scrawling on a wall: 'The people want to topple the regime.'
In the U.S. and abroad, there's incredible positivity towards Hyperloop. People are excited about it, and it's really begun to capture people's imaginations.
The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun.
I had worked in this New York theatre company for my first eight or nine years out of college, acting and directing there, and I'd begun to write a little bit.
Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.