#tar

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it. ↗

— Alicia Vikander

#casting #casting directors #chance #come #decided

I have the stardom glow. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#i #stardom

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion. ↗

— Courtney Love

#cult #leader #like #own #really

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh. ↗

— Maurice de Vlaminck

#afresh #again #damn #every #generation

Heaped up on the blankets, our bodies bound by weariness and her deep slumber, surrounded by sickness and hope, death and defiance, I touched the soft surrendered curl of Karla's sleeping fingers to my lips, and I pledged my heart to her forever. ↗

— Gregory David Roberts

#shantaram #death

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#i #might #piano #play #set

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18. ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

#ballet #ballet dancer #dancer #eight #half

Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war. ↗

— Howard Finster

#ever #every #every time #fought #keep

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#chance #filing #find #firm #gave

It's a long time until the next election, but it starts now. And if you truly want to see things change in the direction that our country is headed, you have to stay involved. You cannot quit now. ↗

— Deb Fischer

#change #country #direction #election #headed