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I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

~ Maya Angelou

By working in the morning, I find a sense of peace; it's isolated peace, but I can definitely be in touch with my feelings, and then I just start.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

~ Wole Soyinka

I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.

~ Joanna Lumley

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

~ Quentin Tarantino

My grandmother would start making her meat sauce at 7 in the morning on Sunday, and within five or six hours, that smell would be all through the house.

~ Jerry Della Femina

I would do the morning show and then just walk over to the network side of the building here at ABC in New York and sit down and start it up again and introduce the 10 contestants, and then introduce the 10 - the fastest finger question, and pick one of them, put them in the seat before you finally got to asking them the questions.

~ Regis Philbin

Beverly Hills is too intimidating. Everyone's got lovely teeth, so you don't want to smile. Everyone's ripped, so you start working out at 4 in the morning and eating egg white omelets.

~ Rob James-Collier

Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

~ Joe Murray

You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.

~ Buck Owens

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

~ Paul Graham

If there's intelligence behind an opinion, then I'm all for expressing it, but I would never just start a fight with someone for the sake of it - that's just not me.

~ Charli Xcx

What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it's not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It's a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It's a very mental game.

~ Shakira

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

~ Jeff Foxworthy

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

~ Alex Haley

But I want to start a family one day, and be involved in more charities, helping children.

~ Lily Aldridge

I would rather start a family than finish one.

~ Don Marquis

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

~ Prince William

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

~ Maya Lin

The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.

~ Sufjan Stevens

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.

~ Thom Mayne

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

~ Martha Stewart

If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.

~ Herman Cain

To start with, for example this year, 2004, is the bicentennial of Haitian independence.

~ Edwidge Danticat

Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.

~ Samuel West

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

You're never too old to start learning, and you're never too young to aim high and achieve great things.

~ Asa Hutchinson

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.

~ Kapil Dev

When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.

~ Mechai Viravaidya

What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.

~ Bebe Rexha

Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

~ Jamie Oliver

French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way.

~ Michael Pollan

I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do.

~ Björk

What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile.

~ Vivek Wadhwa

Caste is a delicate issue. It's ubiquitous, and we are full of it. We should start to change things from individual level. But when you go to people and deny caste, they may not react favourably. I think if a decisive percentage of people, especially elites, start marrying out of their caste, we may see a casteless India in a generation's time.

~ Pawan Kalyan

I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it - makes you feel alive.

~ Camille Guaty

I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'

~ Halle Berry

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

~ Bette Davis

The best ideas start as conversations.

~ Jonathan Ive