#gr

I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#grow #i #like #parts #playing

I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well. ↗

— Frank Scott

#blended #came #constitutional #degrees #disciplines

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#failure #first #grandfathers #his #i

I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate and most of Americans are paying 28, 30 percent and they make far less. ↗

— Terri Sewell

#far #far less #fundamentally #great #his

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point. ↗

— John Sexton

#ansel #asking #california #call #coming

When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#always #been #bring #close #fortunate

For my part, it was Greek to me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#me #part

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#business #emotional #failure #fear #fuels

I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess. ↗

— Del Shannon

#feeling #feeling good #good #great #guess

Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#argued #began #constrained #democratic #drunk