#weren

Suddenly we saw that you could do plays about real life, and people had been doing them for some time, but they weren't always getting to the audiences. They were performed in little, tiny, theatres. ↗

— Timothy West

#always #audiences #been #could #doing

I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me. ↗

— Jack White

#grew #grunge #i #jeans #me

Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

#bear #children #give #just #made

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#always #blues #down #fit #jazz

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#believed #catholics #collapsed #generally #going

I decided sitcoms weren't for me. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#i #me #sitcoms #weren

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance. ↗

— Pam Grier

#allowed #any #appearance #beauty #emphasis

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. ↗

— Sacha Guitry

#charming #faithful #ideal #just #remains

Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#because #club #did #doing #everything

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren't strong you're a victim and you're not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#going #growing #growing up #had #i