A Quote by Annie Dillard

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
American - Author
Born: April 30, 1945

I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.

Chip Kidd

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

Marc Andreessen

I started out as a musician, and I ended up as a cartoon.

Peter Frampton

I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.

Alan Arkin

I think sometimes it's sort of easier to be playing a role based on a real person because there's quite often a lot more information, you're not making it up, it's there in books, it's there in research form. But really the questions you ask about the character, and why people behave, and where they come, and how they've ended up in the places they've ended up are the same.

Keira Knightley

I'd take out a joint and light it. First, just faking it. Then I started lighting live joints, passing them around to the band, you know. I was great, it relieved all my tensions. And I ended up with the greatest supply of grass ever. Other acts up and down the Strip heard about what I was doing - Little Anthony and the Imperials, people like that - and started sending me the best dope in the world. I never ran out.

Barbra Streisand

So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it ought to be, and I let it take me along. So I've had songs that started out as being about the environment and ended up being love songs and love songs that ended up being about the environment. I've had things that I thought would be a poem and realized that it was just too big for that. I've got to do something larger and it became a play. I wrote one poem that started a whole play.

Andy Wilkinson

And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle— And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.

Edgar Lee Masters

When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started to pick up the pace.

Simon Sinek

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.

Ryan Tedder

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!

Taylor Wilson

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up ... making things that I think can change the world.

Taylor Wilson

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I started doing more theatre because I love that and I ended up doing television. I ended up doing it.

Douglas Henshall

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

Marc Andreessen

I was an unplanned pregnancy between two teenagers in Reading, Pennsylvania, and they ended up getting married. They started out struggling.

John Fetterman

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