While I circled around and around in my brown rental skates, I studied a group of skaters spinning in the center. I was fascinated! When my mom picked me up, I began a campaign for skating lessons.
I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.
I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.
Teacher Kitano: So today's lesson is, you kill each other off till there's only one left. Nothing's against the rules.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping into the furniture on stage.
Life sure gives us serious lessons, but I refuse to sit down and take notes. I can pretty well do that walking!
Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories.
I had to ride a horse once. In 'King Arthur.' I said I could ride, but I had to call for lessons on the day the deal was signed. I started out on this little chunky thing and slowly moved up. It was months of work.
I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders.
I had been wanting to give guitar lessons to girls because I feel like women tend to use their voice as the starting point for a song and learn a few chords, and then it ends there because then they just use their voice to flesh out a song.
There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.
Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac
Disappointments are often my greatest motivation.
My greatest inspiration... is my mum, who had a baby at the age of 42 and is still so fit, independent and beautiful.
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.
