#discovered

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. ↗

— Truman Capote

#art #bad #being #between #came

I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#boy #could #discovered #either #geeky

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work. ↗

— Sally Field

#discovered #fate #getting #going #hands

Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it. ↗

— Jacqueline Cochran

#because #cannot #capacity #lacks #many

It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#basis #bush #chinese #discovered #everybody

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#am #discovered #enjoyment #few #figure

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#back #discovered #early #experience #feed

Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means it's going to be harder for young talent to get discovered. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#diminishing #discovered #get #going #great

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

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As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#being lazy #discovered #gotten #i #joys