start out

I didn’t start out to write a newspaper novel.

“It started out as two trams and a Quonset hut on Lankershim Boulevard,” Stein told The Times in a 2023 interview.

I appreciate that stat because when I started out in management a million years ago, I worked off the basis that a clean sheet was worth twice as much as scoring a goal.

This is just how the Earth – and all the other planets in our Solar System – started out, back when our Sun was much, much younger.

She formulated that mission statement when she was starting out, dealing with teachers, directors and castmates who didn’t respect her because of her thin résumé.