#called

I was directing before I knew it was called that. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#called #directing #i #knew

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#called #did #john #jonah #me

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught. ↗

— Fred L. Turner

#developed #focus #i #i think #people

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#classical #everything #get #glam #great

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#fell #gerry #heard #i #just

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#born #buddy #called #children #community

Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy Focus.' What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#chairman #charge #economy #fannie #five

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#bad #bad manners #called #humanity #manners

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#called #dangerous #idea #unworthy

We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins. ↗

— Robin Williams

#cloning #cousins #had #south #years