I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.
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Related I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started makin... MARY LYNN RAJSKUB Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right. , QUOTED IN ASIAWEEK MAGAZINE Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. , IN _A MATHEMATICIAN'S APOLOGY_ In school he drew and painted and took art classes, and he was one of the better students. I assumed... MICHAEL DAVIS I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. MARCEL DUCHAMP I started caddying when I was nine years old at a very exclusive country club in Dayton, Ohio. And I... MARTIN SHEEN It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it. ERIQ LA SALLE I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years st... GRAEME BASE Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. TOM STOPPARD I believe in doing what I am best at. N. T. RAMA RAO, JR. I believe in music. ZUBIN MEHTA I believe in my music. RALPH STANLEY I believe in karma. CHAD KROEGER I believe in forgiveness. PAM BONDI I believe in my writing. BARRY MANILOW I believe in rituals. CHARLES SIMONYI Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school. KAY HAGAN I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing. JIMMY PAGE I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people. NORMAN WISDOM Robspierre replied softly, 'the question is to know where is the enemy.' 'He is out there, and I hav... , "NINTY-THREE" I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school. ABBI JACOBSON When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many yea... PAUL SPARKS Then I tried out for the Fontana High School drum line, in Riverside, and I did really well. I got s... TRAVIS BARKER We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic pis... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the t... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Thats the thing about pain, it demands to be felt. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 If you were to go [to the Rijksmuseum], and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paint... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I cant talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know ... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of the... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had b... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Grief does not change you, it reveals you. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could.... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Sometimes people dont understand the promises theyre making when they make them. Right, of cours... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 It seemed like forever ago, like wed had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities ar... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Im in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inev... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates y... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just ... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 [Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, ... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, a... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Thinking you wont die is yet another side effect of dying. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember w... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Nostalgia is a side effect of dying. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Its almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either th... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories. , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 There is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of ... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Then I came back and went to CJCA before that I was at CHED when they first started in 1954. After f... BRIAN HALL When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success ... WILL FERRELL I believe in aging gracefully. TATJANA PATITZ I believe in numbers and signs. VIKRAM CHATWAL I believe in creative visualization. VICTORIA BECKHAM I believe in people, especially suffering people. PAT BUCKLEY I believe in following opportunities. LAURA MOSER I believe in reincarnation of the soul. NATALIA VODIANOVA I believe in collaboration and cooperation. GARY HERBERT I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky. D. B. SWEENEY I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals. MICHAEL GOVE I believe in the power of weakness. PAT BUCKLEY I don't believe in curses. I believe in God. RICHARD SHERMAN I believe in decentralized democracy. SHARAD PAWAR I believe in the immortality of all creatures. EGON SCHIELE I'm a karmic girl; I believe in karma. ALYSIA REINER I believe in a passion for inclusion. LADY GAGA I believe in finding a soulmate. SCARLETT JOHANSSON I believe in status symbols. BROOKS STEVENS If you can see it, you can be it. And I believe in that. ELIZABETH MARVEL I don't myself believe in a two-state solution. I believe in a one-state solution. EDWARD SAID I believe in walking in the Spirit. DAVID WILKERSON I believe in marriage and fidelity. GLORIA VANDERBILT I believe in focusing on details. CHARLIE TROTTER I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic. ESTELLE It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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