All Quotes

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

My cultural roots are something illusive.
‐‐ Ang Lee

My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

My culture doesn't regard acting highly.
‐‐ Ang Lee

My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.
‐‐ Jess Walter

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
‐‐ Victoria Abril

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
‐‐ Jessica Savitch

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.
‐‐ Taylor Dayne

My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles.
‐‐ Nuno Bettencourt

My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife.
‐‐ Sunidhi Chauhan

My curves are not crazy.
‐‐ Henri Matisse

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.
‐‐ Misty Copeland

My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.
‐‐ Tom Ford

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.
‐‐ Betsey Johnson

My customers are successful workingwomen.
‐‐ Oscar de la Renta

My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered.
‐‐ Lil Mama

My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.
‐‐ Paul Ryan

My dad actually had business cards made up with my sister's website and my website and all of our information. And he hands them out to people he meets.
‐‐ Maria Bamford

My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it's tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his!
‐‐ Blake Lively

My dad actually taught me how to do the catwalk because he used to do modeling. He taught me how to do that little swivel at the end.
‐‐ Sophie Lowe

My dad actually taught me how to play piano. I was classically trained, but I've started to branch off a little bit into blues and jazz. That's my new thing.
‐‐ Noah Gray-Cabey

My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.
‐‐ Eliza Coupe

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
‐‐ Page McConnell

My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
‐‐ Ta-Nehisi Coates

My dad always had huge respect for the British Army. He always thought it was one of the best. And I think it changed his life - those seven years in that Army.
‐‐ Isaac Herzog

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.
‐‐ Thomas Langmann

My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn't take me getting hit.
‐‐ DeMar DeRozan

My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.
‐‐ Dominik Garcia-Lorido

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
‐‐ Joe Biden

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
‐‐ Daisy Donovan

My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.
‐‐ Gwyneth Paltrow

My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give.
‐‐ Scott Stapp

My dad always said that 90 percent of marital problems could be solved by getting your blood sugar up, and he's right! So I would say pick a partner who's forgiving when you have low blood sugar and threaten to drive your car through your shared home.
‐‐ Casey Wilson

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'
‐‐ Mario Van Peebles

My dad always supported me. Sometimes we didn't have anything to eat for breakfast, but if we could eat lunch and dinner, we weren't poor.
‐‐ Albert Pujols

My dad always taught me if I have my education, anything is possible.
‐‐ Romeo Miller

My dad always taught me never to give up in my mind. You can never really beat me. It sounds ridiculous, but I will always come back for you. You can't beat someone who never gives up. I could lose 100 times to you, but I will always get you. I will die trying. This applies not only to swimming but to my life as well.
‐‐ Chad le Clos

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.
‐‐ Thierry Henry

My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.
‐‐ Rashida Jones

My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'
‐‐ Bruce Dickinson

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
‐‐ T-Pain

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
‐‐ T-Pain

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'
‐‐ Al Franken

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
‐‐ Cameron Diaz