Alan Arkin Quotes
You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.
Alan Arkin
Quotes to Explore
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
Haile Selassie
I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
Frances Fisher
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
Damien Rice
My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
Samina Baig
Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
Gary Bauer
When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
Dane Cook
I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
Ted Stevens
I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
Kate Smith
Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
Laura Benanti
You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
Pablo Sandoval
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith
To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
Irving Babbitt
I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.
Felicity Jones
When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
Ian Thorpe
I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
Tao Okamoto
I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
Sam Hunt
Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
Wadada Leo Smith
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi