#studied

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#child #chopin #dame #elizabeth #her

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#irritated #me #pace #studied

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#acting school #couple #exercises #got #i

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#contribute #else #everyone #i #like

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts. ↗

— Jet Li

#children #go #i #martial #martial arts

It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#astounded #because #concerns #deep #find

I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#clothes #college #economics #finally #home

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully! ↗

— Danica McKellar

#admire #become #believe #belong #carefully

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#because #been #intellectual #mentioned #paradise

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#former #him #i #met #smith