#admired

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#being #class #directly #each #i

My parents thought all actors were secretly drug addicts, except for Clint Eastwood, whom they admired. But they thought it was very unlikely that I would ever be Clint Eastwood. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#clint #clint eastwood #eastwood #ever #except

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#blondes #comedies #dated #end #explains

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#ambition #american #average #boyfriend #courted

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#also #could #his #i #life

Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#come #coming #goes #guys #i

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom. ↗

— Randy Forbes

#because #close #felt #him #his

Getting to meet people that I've admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they're coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful. ↗

— Will Friedle

#characters #coming #completely #different #different characters

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#admired #age #because #black #boy

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#around #family #foundation #friends #hurt