#seriously

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#become #boring #events #life #pompous

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#career #catch #catch phrase #come #composing

I need to behave in a way that will cause people to take me seriously. ↗

— Megan Fox

#cause #i #me #need #people

I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special. ↗

— James Galway

#diamonds #difference #flute #i #just

Absolutely. It's something I'd eventually love. In the meantime, I just borrow all my friends' kids. It's seriously the best birth control in the world. I'm so tired afterward, I'm like, Okay, maybe in another two years. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#another #best #birth #birth control #borrow

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously. ↗

— Boy George

#believe #choice #get #goal #i

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#chord #desk #did #four #frets

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#begin #ceasing #failures #immense #importance

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies! ↗

— James McAvoy

#by the time #considered #i #importantly #ladies

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#african american #american #classical #classical music #contract