#starved

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#did #hip #musicians #nothing #other

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself. ↗

— Jane Kaczmarek

#got #i #i think #just #lois

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#certain #experiment #favorites #go #i

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily. ↗

— Ronnie Corbett

#die #easily #entertainment #feel #gaiety

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#country #given #hard #house #lives

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#connection #environment #i #i came #information

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. ↗

— Joanna Baillie

#better thing #pampered #perhaps #pride #starved

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#decades #every #every time #good #hire

It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#certain #company #dinner #few #friends

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#america #arrived #bad #company #dreadful