Arts Quotes - page 34

The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in! (Jill Scott)
There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college. View quote
Jill Scott
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school. View quote
Jillian Bach
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics. View quote
Jim Leach
When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning. View quote
Joan Severance
I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it. View quote
Jody Hill
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. View quote
John Baldacci
Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum - the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression. View quote
John Darnielle
My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year. View quote
John Howe
The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak. View quote
John Lahr
My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts. (John Lasseter)
No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts. View quote
John Philip Sousa
There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic. View quote
John Woo
I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two. View quote
Jonathan Dimbleby
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. View quote
Jonathan Kozol
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction. View quote
Jonathan Lethem
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals. View quote
Jonathan Lethem
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. View quote
Juan Goytisolo
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education. View quote
Julie Bowen
I was a jock, hardcore sports all the way down the line, but I heard that if you auditioned for this arts school, you got time off school, and that sounded good to me. View quote
Jake Epstein
I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts. (JWoww)
It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. View quote
Kaley Cuoco
I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you've got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling. View quote
Kurt Angle
The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress. View quote
Karen Kain
I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it. View quote
Kari Matchett