#serious

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#certainly #close #creativity #heard #i

My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs... I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural. ↗

— Emily Procter

#bugs #colors #decided #fascinating #house

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#life #seriously #take #taken #think

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#commission #conference #decided #draft #following

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#allowing #articles #bee #feel #finished

I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#always #casting #casting directors #debt #directors

With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#both #characters #engaged #enough #great

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles. ↗

— Bill Rancic

#angeles #chicago #city #country #favorite

If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#assumptions #body #calculating #changed #data

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#i do #seriously #take #too #way