I’m from a pretty working-class background, and I really worked hard in my life to eradicate those parts of myself that were stupidly trapped in that world.Those of us who come up that way made a series of choices to benefit ourselves and make ourselves more generous and open.
GEORGE SAUNDERSVirtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.
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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another themeM
ALAN ARKIN -
I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
JANIS JOPLIN -
Even if everyone is nice to us, we can never be happy, if our mind does not speak nicely to us.
BK SHIVANI -
The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.
ABBEY LINCOLN -
I’m not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn’t do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don’t have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
WHITNEY HOUSTON -
Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you.
JOJO MOYES -
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.
BILL GATES -
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Experience is so much richer than light falling on your retina. You embody a microcosm of reality when you walk down the street – your memories, your varying degrees of awareness of what’s going on around you.
BILL VIOLA -
It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it?
AMY WINEHOUSE -
Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
ALAN GREENSPAN -
We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.
AGAPI STASSINOPOULOS -
Allah is the Greatest. I’m just the greatest boxer.
MUHAMMAD ALI -
One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game – if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.
WAYNE GRETZKY -
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
EVELYN WAUGH