I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
Sam Elliott
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'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
Jodie Foster
BestMeChickenBecomeTaxiDriver
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
BetterFriendsDeceiveDeceivedThan
I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition.
Jennifer Grey
LearningDanceNew YorkMeBaby
Perfectionism is really a challenge for me, and it causes me to be super-critical of myself in so many ways: about body image constantly; about parenting; about being a mother.
Jennifer Nettles
MotherMyselfChallengeParentingMe
In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life.
Robert Reich
LifeSupportKingCityLostWorkers
Every night, I try to hustle and do what I can do. And when you hit a ground ball, you should hustle.
Steve Clevenger
NightYouHustleI CanTryGround
Conflicting legislation and regulations, overlapping mandates, unwillingness to enforce land use, elite capture, entrenched attitudes, and lack of incentives to influence behavior are rife in many resource-rich countries.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
InfluenceBehaviorLandCaptureMany
As much as only playing clubs can become tedious, performing in huge venues can also become off-putting. To go from one to the other feels great. And sometimes playing clubs can be even more stressful, because you really have to think about what you're going to tell the audience between songs.
Stromae
GreatThinkYouGoSometimesBecome
I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.
Rita Coolidge
JourneyJazzAlwaysBeenWantedDid
They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.
Joshua Sylvester
LifeShadowsSayThey SayOutLamp
It was a sort of weird, troubled road into acting because I had been a bit naughty in school until I did my Highers, and then I was like, 'Oh, I think I'm going to apply myself and surprise everyone.'
Chloe Pirrie
MyselfSchoolRoadThinkSurprise
If I disliked managing, I liked umpiring even less.
Bobby Wallace
EvenLikedLessDislikedManaging
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