#trained

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#before #critic #critics #i #i remember

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#chance #city #even #everything #got

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

#amount #been #disappointed #done #giving

I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#bare #going #had #i #just

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#about #along #behaviour #cloning #computer

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals. ↗

— Richard Wall

#been #conceive #discipline #individuals #psychology

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#bodyguards #certified #highly #i #public

I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type. ↗

— Gary Cole

#been #bit #enough #fact #family

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#domestic #firmness #kindness #male #most

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#choose #classically #done #dramatic #films