What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.
‐‐ Laura Linney
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.
‐‐ Jeffrey Deitch
What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.
‐‐ Nick Clegg
What I hope my writing reflects... is a sense of the connections between all human beings... and a different perspective on the true nature of courage. For me, those are things worth exploring and writing about.
‐‐ Chris Crutcher
What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
‐‐ Bassem Youssef
What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'
‐‐ Marsha Norman
What I implore you to do is believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there that you will have an impact as a result of what you do, and you don't need to know now what that will be, or how that will happen, because nobody ever does.
‐‐ Dick Costolo
What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk
What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.
‐‐ Kurt Huber
What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki
What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.
‐‐ Lorenzo di Bonaventura
What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.
‐‐ Tyler Perry
What I know about Mike Tyson, I see in the boxing ring. As far as all of the gossip stuff that I hear about him, I know first hand to take that with a grain of salt.
‐‐ Gerald McRaney
What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
‐‐ Vernon Jordan
What I know for sure is that we are all created with this phenomenal force inside of us that can have us withstand - that God never gives us more than we can handle.
‐‐ Debbie Ford
What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.
‐‐ Emily Procter
What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson
What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.
‐‐ Tom Heinsohn
What I know is that my upbringing was always the man was the head of the family. It's a European tradition. We always look up to the man. But this is old times. Now what I believe is that I'm definitely equal.
‐‐ Ivana Trump
What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care; it's not a system any longer where people are able to innovate. It's not based on voluntary exchange. The government is directing it.
‐‐ John Mackey
What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day.
‐‐ Ali Smith
What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.
‐‐ Kristin Hannah
What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.
‐‐ Jane Seymour
What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.
‐‐ Marcia Cross
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.
‐‐ Guy Kawasaki
What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.
‐‐ Martin Short
What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'
‐‐ CJ Adams
What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'
‐‐ Tom Hooper
What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.
‐‐ Novak Djokovic
What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.
‐‐ Charles S. Dutton
What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.
‐‐ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.
‐‐ Tim Schafer
What I learned at Miramax is that if you see where extraordinary creative talent can be brought into the family, move quickly, because if you don't, someone else will.
‐‐ Scott Greenstein
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty
What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have an impulse to do something, and it's not totally irresponsible, why not do it? It might just be the journey you've always needed.
‐‐ Timothy Hutton
What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.
‐‐ Joseph J. Lhota
What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.
‐‐ Ice Cube
What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.
‐‐ Sean Durkin
What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.
‐‐ Alicia Silverstone
What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
‐‐ Annie Leibovitz
What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.
‐‐ Gene Wilder
What I learned from my father is to think big.
‐‐ Eike Batista
What I learned from my go-round with 'In the Heights' is that it's tough to make a movie. In Hollywood, even the people in charge have people in charge.
‐‐ Lin-Manuel Miranda
What I learned from my kids is that the greatest joy in life is not from material trappings, power, or visibility. The greatest joy comes from your kids. Nothing is even close to my kids in terms of bringing me joy.
‐‐ Guy Kawasaki
What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.
‐‐ Jim Yong Kim
What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.
‐‐ Yves Behar
What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.
‐‐ Bob Parsons
What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.
‐‐ Don Shula
What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their own studio.
‐‐ Spike Jonze
What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.
‐‐ Joel Siegel