Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
The Blue Fairy: Little puppet made of pine, awake. The gift of life is thine.
Santi: [handing Malik a bag of gifts] From César Luciani. You're now under his protection.
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.
If there's one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it's the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother's side.
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
I had no idea what awaited me when I took a job with CBS Records, and it was a total surprise to find I had a gift and an ear for music.
It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.
Every experience is a gift and happens for a reason. No matter how big or small, we are reminded that we are the captains of our ship.
Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think that's a real gift.
The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.
No one is too poor to give a smile - a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money.
She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry.
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
I believe the best gift you could ever give a woman is your time.
My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.
