#offered

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#gift #habit #i #i am #looking

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman. ↗

— Vicki Baum

#feeling #offered #pity #woman

I don't honestly know why they offered me the part in Rent. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#i #know #me #offered #part

At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other. ↗

— James Tobin

#could #does #each #growing #growing up

So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#areas #around #come #country #down

Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#business #called #critically #douglas #eventually

I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it! ↗

— Martina McBride

#ever #fighting #had #honest #i

I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line. ↗

— Gerald McRaney

#ahead #change #committing #enjoy #five

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#became #been #choice #competition #either

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts. ↗

— Bebe Neuwirth

#always #between #coasts #difference #hot