#picked

The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#after #came #chronicle #first #grew

I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it. ↗

— Emma Watson

#complete #control #desperately #find #found

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#business #conquered #forged #into #jesus

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#along #fame #felt #freedom #get

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#ever #fans #get #i #out

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#book #did #discovered #even #ever

Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men. ↗

— Paula Cole

#found #gabriel #i #later #meant

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#bottles #breathed #did #drank #grapes

You can't do television shows caring whether or not the network picks you up. You can only do them enjoying the work, because if you're always on pins and needles about whether you'll be picked up, you'll lose your mind. I learned that the hard way. ↗

— Jon Cryer

#always #because #caring #enjoying #hard

In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going. ↗

— Bill Frisell

#beyond #bit #feels #first #first time