#arte

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#contributing #fame #fun #get #i

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#dancing #expression #form #i #involved

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#able #about #arrive #breakup #different

Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#acting #career #changed #everything #having

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first. ↗

— Van Morrison

#back #belfast #blues #club #doing

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down. ↗

— Van Morrison

#audiences #concerts #down #i #me

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing. ↗

— Van Morrison

#doing #gigs #i #out #play

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration. ↗

— Van Morrison

#belfast #big #did #george #guy

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now. ↗

— Van Morrison

#i #more #now #people #playing

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#dealing #fiction #fiction writers #i #i think