Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.
I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn't want to seem contrived at all with any song choice that might be a detriment to my journey on 'The Voice.'
I play enough guitar to get by. I don't like to play guitar live.
I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.
Flops are always disappointing, but 'High Fidelity' was devastating. Not that I thought it was going to make me a big star, but I did think it was going to run longer than a week and a half.
I don't read reviews until after I'm done with a production, but when I do finally get to them, I'm always sort of floored by what the bad ones say.
In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.
As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.
In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.
The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.
You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance.
These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar.
The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.
Now being upon the haunches (as he necessarily must be in this case) is it impossible but he must be light in hand, because no horse can be rightly upon his haunches without being so.
But my method of the pillar, as it throws the horse yet more upon the haunches, is still more effectual to this purpose, and besides always gives him the ply to the side he goes of.
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
You never know what you can do till you try.
