#tart

I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York. ↗

— Nancy McKeon

#commercials #doing #i #modeling #new

I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else. ↗

— Christopher McQuarrie

#could #direct #else #great #had

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#caring #causes #crime #focusing #got

Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference. ↗

— Carrie P. Meek

#character #communities #cycle #improve #indifference

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#basketball #football #football player #i #inflict

That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early. ↗

— Prince Charles

#called #early #everything #microphone #picks

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#began #best #compose #ever #gave

I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#always #argentina #changed #did #dream

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#cheesecake #commissioned #company #get #had

But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#feel #grand #idiots #now #parents