Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

I wanted to write.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

I just want to keep writing music.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

My name is not unfamiliar to anybody in the dance community. I’m talking the upper echelon of dance studios.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

I love movement. I love moshing.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I can dance to just about anything.

I just love working with Eminem. He’s just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics – he’s a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.

I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

I love food.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

We love things we love what they are.

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.