Josh Young Quotes

I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea.

Josh Young

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• Performing
• Visual artist

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• We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • High
  • Night

• I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • School
  • English

• Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Career
  • View
  • Doors

• I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taken

• For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • Painting

• Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Community
  • Respect

• When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Voice

• You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • Children
  • Friends

• The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Saying

• I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Leaving

• I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Up
  • American
  • Nature

• Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Cancer
  • Smoking

• The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world. Not everyone coming here brings in his heart the passionate attachment to America we attribute to the peoples of Ellis Island.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Heart
  • America

• A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Power
  • Fire
  • Forest

• I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.

  

  Lorene Scafaria
  • Happy
  • Friday

• I'm actually not a big reader.

  

  Bennett Miller

• Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Work
  • Art
  • True

• The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

  

  Billy Collins
  • War

• Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.

  

  Lionel Shriver

• On signing day, my mom brought me the national letter of intent to Arkansas. I should feel like I'm making the right decision. You get that many people telling you that. I had been dreaming about it. I signed 'No' where I was supposed to sign my name and put an exclamation point.

  

  DeAngelo Williams
  • People
  • Mom
  • Decision

• Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Deep
  • Horse

• I'm not experienced enough, or certain enough of my acting on the screen to say to a director, "You are wrong, I am right. I will only do it this way." I could never feel that, I wish I could be absolutely certain. But on the stage, it's different. I know where I am on the stage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Different
  • Wish

• I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan. And I said it to my agent, and I said it to my friends, and I said it to myself.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • World
  • Remember
  • Inspiring

• I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea.

  

  Josh Young
  • Decision
  • Performing
  • Visual artist