#tellin

I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard. ↗

— Viola Davis

#because #becomes #done #failed #get

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have. ↗

— Dan DeCarlo

#book #characters #feel #had #telling

The first time I heard Johnny play at the Fillmore East, I wasn't really impressed. He had come on the scene with everybody telling me how great he was, and I didn't hear it. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#east #everybody #fillmore #first #first time

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#because #control #day #dreams #enjoy

My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#first #going #huge #keeping #me

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable. ↗

— Rita Dove

#country #even #found #i #immensely

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#know #me #should #sitting #soapbox

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me. ↗

— Kevin Durant

#been #calm #calm down #coach #doing

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#interested #me #much #story #tell

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while. ↗

— Vida Blue

#be nice #cocky #get #give #i