The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.
I want to go see Somalia because I've never been there, and I feel like I'm missing out. I want to learn that heritage; I want to learn about my culture.
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.
When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.
We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.
If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
There is no schooling for fame and success. You learn as you walk.
You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.
It's easier for me to act in Spanish, but as soon as I get the lines in English and I know them by heart, it becomes really easy. You don't have to worry about the language anymore. It just takes more time. In Spanish, I can learn lines in 10 minutes. In English, it's going to take an hour.
Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.
You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.
On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.
As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.
I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.
I learn more with every job, and I'm very thankful for where I am.
I feel as long as people enjoy what they read and learn something more, I have done my job as a writer.
Learn how to make your own weaves. It will help you save a lot of money in the long run!
I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.
He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.
Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.
I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not.
You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.
Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.
I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.
I decided right away that whomever was going to advise me had to be fundamentally interested in music. This protected me from the skullduggery common to the music industry then and that still exists today. Of course, using this method meant that some things we didn't know and just had to learn how to do it together.
If I want my children to learn what bomba and plena is, I will teach them.
