"Architecture for me has always begun with drawing.
The blackly surreal answer is, of course, that it has always begun; the tide was turning against the Successor even as he rose through the Party ranks.
He thinks of himself as a singular force, a unique brand, and his narrative has always begun and ended with him.
Traditionally, window washing in commercial buildings has always begun in the early mornings, to avoid disturbing the tenants, and, in the summer, when the temperature on black glass can rise to a hundred degrees Fahrenheit by one in the afternoon, to limit exposure to the heat of the sun.
In recent years, the memorial gathering has always begun with a video image and recording of excerpts from Rabin's final speech, followed by the chilling announcement by his bureau chief Eitan Haber that "the Government of Israel, announces, with astonishment, that Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has been shot, killed by a Jewish assassin".
Because the director has always begun his films minus a title – and because the films are created through a process of improvisation, without a script – that white sticky label was intended to direct actors arriving at these premises, three years ago, to auditions for the movie that became Mr Turner.
But from the Triangle Shirtwaist marches to Hoovervilles, from women's rights marches to civil rights sit-ins, progress has always begun with a handful of determined citizens.
Profound social change -- whether in the agrarian economy of the 1900s, the growth of labor rights, civil rights, women's rights, or in other transformative historical moments -- has always begun with a popular movement.
Rabies, we have always been told, begins at Calais.
