Edmonia Lewis Quotes

Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.

Edmonia Lewis

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• I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Work
  • Man

• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Woman

• Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Thanks
  • Number
  • Honey

• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Made

• You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Decisions

• When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Done
  • Role
  • Broadway

• The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Care
  • Consciousness
  • Become

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Country
  • Done
  • Home

• You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Care
  • Fail

• O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Emotions
  • Hollywood

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Commit
  • Promises
  • Loyal

• Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Story

• I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Morning

• Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Look
  • Embrace
  • Grease

• I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Opportunity
  • Myself
  • Fight

• I finally became a scuba diver at age 15 or so, and a couple of years after that, I attended a dive show that is held every year in Boston. It's the oldest one in the world and it's still going on - it's called the Sea Rovers.

  

  Brian Skerry
  • World
  • Age
  • Couple

• At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.

  

  James Mooney

• In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Moving

• I'll tell something, a lot of times I'd listen to Charlie and some of the interviews he had and he said, 'Well, yeah, I was a garbage goal collector.' But he knew the timing. I knew where he was.

  

  Marcel Dionne

• Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Work
  • Way
  • Dark