Albert Pinkham Ryder Quotes
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Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn't until my third year at drama school that I actually thought, 'Oh, right, I'm trained for this now; I'd better see if I can do it.'
Natasha Little -
When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
Carice van Houten -
I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
Edmonia Lewis -
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. Salinger -
My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
Zaha Hadid -
When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
Ice Cube
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There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.
RaeLynn -
I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.
Gail Carson Levine -
Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.
Laura Dern -
I never thought I was a very good manager.
Barry Diller -
When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
Valerie June -
At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.
Madison Marlow
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Orson Welles -
I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
Patrick Troughton -
Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.
Vikas Swarup -
I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
Gabriela Sabatini -
I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
Lady Gaga -
I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.
Carl Hagelin
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I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.
Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face -
The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.
Adam Michnik -
I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
Tammy Faye Bakker -
The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.
Albert Pinkham Ryder