Fiona Shaw Quotes

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

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• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• If I was involved with the NFL, I'd seriously consider adopting some of the rules used in Canada. I've heard, unofficially, of course, some NFL club owners have talked about adding a feature or two. The NFL went for the two-point conversion. Professional sport is entertainment, and the CFL, I believe, is ahead of the NFL in that regard.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Believe
  • Professional
  • Rules

• I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Fire
  • Professional
  • Romantic

• It just seemed like an unattainable dream to go down to Los Angeles and to land a professional working, acting gig on a show that you really love with a character you really connect with. That doesn't seem possible; that seems insane.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Love
  • Character
  • Dream

• We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mother
  • Star
  • Beginning

• I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • More
  • Performing

• I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Professional

• I wanted to be a professional drummer.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Professional
  • Drummer

• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • World
  • Trying
  • Dream

• There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Professional

• Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Different
  • Quality

• I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Help
  • Responsibility
  • Better

• You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • People
  • Important
  • Ideas

• You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Success

• Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Career

• Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm getting more used to it. I'm really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It's easier than singing in front of 2.

  

  Candice Glover
  • American
  • Singing
  • Weird

• Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That's why I don't read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Important
  • Why
  • Relationship

• At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Day
  • End
  • Professional

• I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Technology
  • Design
  • Professional

• Working crew made me realise that the actors are a very small part of a very big machine, with each part being vital to make the show work. It so important to remember that it's not about you, it's about the show, and working crew hammered that point home to me.

  

  Katie McGrath
  • Work
  • Important
  • Home

• Part of me likes a more ragged, jagged guitar sound or performance, but our work might not have been as innovative had we followed in the footsteps of what came before. We were very proud of what we had hit on.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Proud
  • Guitar
  • Performance

• Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• The multiple reinforcing cues of a good song-rhythm, melody, contour-cause music to stick in our heads. That is the reason why many ancient myths, epics, and even the Old Testament were set to music in preparation for being passed down by oral tradition across generations.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Good
  • Music
  • Why

• There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Professional
  • Performing