For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.
My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.
I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.
I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.
The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
Kellie Overbey gave me this play called 'Girl Talk.' I read it and totally fell in love with the characters. I told her she had to let me direct it and put Marcia DeBonis in it.
I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16
We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.
When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.
When I am brave enough to say goodbye I'll use the wings you gave me and away I'll fly
To become a man is to carry out your word because you gave your word. And your word is you as a man." - The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz
The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.
It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
