I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.
I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, 'I might read a script and love it, but it's all about the filmmaker.' I think that's a good lesson for me.
I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The lessons have just made me stronger.
Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.
Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige.
Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.
I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.
History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.
I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.
Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
I grew up in Vancouver and my father drove me to every single one of my acting lessons, auditions, and jobs.
I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
See every situation as a BLOT i.e. everything that comes your way is either a Blessing, Lesson, Opportunity, or a Test.
I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.
