#offer

When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#came #captain #doing #eight #everyone

Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore. ↗

— Roger Spottiswoode

#after #another #any #back #bond

A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted. ↗

— George Stephen

#after #books #couple #i #offer

During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#careers #coming #during #hardy #hot

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#clear #experience #get #give #kids

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. ↗

— George Stigler

#challenge #challenges #chemist #citizens #competition

All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#as far as #because #been #especially #far

You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you know, the information that they offered to us from their aspect. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#artist #artists #aspect #had #industry

I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#get #i #just #many #more

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#army #before #first #first of all #i