#where

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#became #booked #first #hughes #i

I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#american #because #class #classes #created

Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#because #cheap #comes #everywhere #food

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#could #deal #great #great deal #grew

So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#am #answer #ended #entirely #family

Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#early #few #funny #hate #i

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#breaking #completely #deep #different #justice

I do get clocked. But it's not invasive to the point where it's upsetting. It doesn't encroach. ↗

— Clive Owen

#get #i #i do #point #upsetting

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible. ↗

— Clive Owen

#africa #china #civil #civil war #did

Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere. ↗

— Sophocles

#friend #him #his #i #important