I've never been afraid to make a polite ask to someone.
Gerald Chertavian
Recitation: by Male by Female
Forget being 'discovered.' All you can do is write. If you write well enough, and are stubborn enough to embrace failure, and if you happen to fall into the narrow categories that the book market recognizes, then you might make a little money. Otherwise, it's a struggle. A gorgeous struggle.
Jess Walter
FailureMoneyStruggleBookStubborn
Divorce is not the end of the world. It's worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That's a worse example for the children.
Jerry Hall
MarriageChildrenWorldEndDivorce
Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.
Angela Braly
OpportunityRisksControlYouFind
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
LosingPaintingWinRememberArtist
I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.
Michael J. Fox
WorkFamilyLoveHappinessAlive
I have so much to be thankful for.
Alyssa Edwards
ThankfulBe ThankfulMuch
My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.
Robert B. Parker
SonThinkOldYearsHereBecause
It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.
Rory Stewart
StupidSurpriseFriendsSaidIdea
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
Minnie Driver
MusicCreativeWeirdPlayBecome
I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.
Minoru Yamasaki
AgeChaosThinkFeelYouBuildings
Bottom line, I have to follow what my soul says, or my spirit. And my spirit said that poetry and the arts should be without borders, should be without political borders.
Joy Harjo
SoulPoetryPoliticalMy SoulSaid
TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.
Joss Whedon
FunRocksWithoutLikeMuchTV
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