#seemed

Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#awfully #baldwin #bankrupt #bit #bought

I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it. ↗

— Paul Merton

#before #bit #business #doing #i

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself. ↗

— David Millar

#also #back #bikes #bones #break

I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then. ↗

— Ikue Mori

#get #happened #happening #here #i

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#payoffs #random #seemed #showbiz #slot

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious. ↗

— Alan Hansen

#ambition #ambitious #him #i #i think

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#accomplish #anything #decided #early #ever

I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me. ↗

— Dana Hill

#i #look #lot #luckier #many

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#assailed #environment #even #fantastic #feeling

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#effort #failure #glorious #hopeless #little