#ak

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman. ↗

— Roger Vadim

#film #make #me #rodin #sculpture

I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day. ↗

— Steve Vai

#awake #day #favored #get #go

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#circumstances #exalt #historians #how #improve

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #despise #disdain #efforts #i

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. ↗

— Paul Valery

#exposes #fellows #judge #judgments #more

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school. ↗

— Boris Vallejo

#doing #how #know #learn #long

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness. ↗

— Ville Valo

#almost #asthma #better #care #forgot

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens. ↗

— Ville Valo

#aspects #back #being #bit #colored

The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays. ↗

— Ville Valo

#first #guys #i #kiss #make

And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year! ↗

— Jim Valvano

#arthur #arthur ashe #ashe #back #brains