Famous Quotes & Sayings

I grew up mostly on the East Coast in Baltimore. Great education, medicine, the arts were all a given.

If we joined, we couldn't share any identifying information about MARA members, so if we found someone in the group publishing virus source code, or co-authoring articles with known virus writers, we couldn't divulge that information.

Campbell Scott

I got my start on the stage and there's no question that I keep getting drawn back to material and artists born there.

JWoww

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens.

Basic self-defense classes teach you 200 different techniques for 200 different situations, and the martial arts teach intricate techniques that require practice, but will prove to be more effective.

Basic research has shown that in the arteries in the heart, that inflammatory processes that are reflected by higher levels of CRP may play a role in the development of hardening of the arteries or atherosclerosis,

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: / I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Dottie Peoples

Because secular artists participate, somebody coming might not even go to church.

China enjoys 5,000 years of history and cultural diversity that stems from its vast population, ... What we're presenting is a comprehensive sampling of the best that China has to offer, large and small ensembles from many regions of China, as well as artists of Chinese descent from the United States.

Trent Johnson

Chris, Matt, Danny - these guys have been through some wars. All we ever talked about was the next game and the next practice. This is a very bright, articulate group. There was never any sense of panic.

I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.

Adrian Peterson

I'm all into my rap grooves. I'm checking out artists like Lil' Wayne and Trick Daddy.

Chris Whitley

I'm always looking for something kind of melancholy, ... I guess I was trying to mix these things without really knowing it. I write in a way that's more subconscious, just trying to articulate some mystery that's not obvious.

John Hawkes

I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

Mary Lambert

I look up to Tegan & Sara, obviously, Adele and Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks. All these artists are strong in their convictions, and they haven't changed who they are for the music business.

Douglas Booth

I love art. My sister is an artist and my mother is a painter, so it is very much in the family. I haven't ever wanted to be a fine artist myself - my sister robbed me of my artistic talent, I think.

Jandy Nelson

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Siri Hustvedt

I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without Men.' I also write essays about visual art.

I have a list of ideas that I want to do for my art series, but I'm always trying to figure out what's going to work. Ever since I was in art school, I would read and get ideas. Sometimes the photograph sparks an idea in me, and I continue in that direction.

I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.

Don Bluth

I have been involved with script approval, approvals of character designs and the art direction, on kind of a consultant basis.

I have a preference for writing that deals with domestic issues; even in visual art, I like work that focuses on very small aspects of human life. I like movies that have a very narrow focus. I can see how it might be viewed as limiting, but I don't experience it that way.

Megan McCafferty

I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission.

Esha Gupta

I have a very broad-minded family. Acting is an art, and we understand that.

Roberta Flack

I have my own charity I am trying to get off the ground as well, which some of my concerts go toward funding, ... I am building a school-the Roberta Flack School of Music-in two brownstones I purchased in New York City. The purpose is to help other young musician artists just as I received good teaching and help from my family and friends back home.

Charles Hazlewood

I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if you're not in the club, they're not going to let you join. It's like The Turin Shroud: don't touch it because it might fall apart.

Joan Smalls

I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, 'The Artist is Present', in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.

James Buckley

I felt it was too much of a struggle to have a career in the arts. I wanted to be able to retire one day . . . an arts career has no guarantees, no pensions and is too risky. I always knew I would return to dental school.

Miranda Lambert

I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

I feel like I am being put on notice that the number of shows with artistic excellence is going to be far greater than when we started in 1989. And that means the festival has done its job.

Rebecca Sugar

I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.

Margaret Keane

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

Alafair Burke

I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.