It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
When I'm fielding at point, I'm running all over that field, and I'm really tired by the end of the innings.
I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth; I came from really humble beginnings - the projects of New York City - and I worked my way to get to where I am.
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
I think that my humble beginnings were very deliberate, and I'm grateful for them because I'm not sure I would see my achievements the same way if they were handed to me. I'm not sure my work ethic would be the same.
I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.
I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like, the beginnings of four songs.
Birthright citizenship in America is part of something larger: The American longing to sever from history, to be a place of new beginnings.
AI is witnessing an early innings in India. It has a thoughtful government, and India can race ahead if it chooses to.
