I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just a hobby, but I had a desire to know all I could about everything I could.
Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.
I experienced Nazism as a child. Like many of my generation, I was motivated by the desire to prevent another war at any price.
If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.
I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His desire is to grant us that sacred wish for unity out of His love for us.
The older we get, the more we desire to reclaim our body at 25; we'll take our face at 35, the elasticity of our mind at its most powerful, to return ourselves somehow to our most vital moment of rigor and protean creation.
When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.
There's a huge dichotomy between people who grow up with alienation, which, for me, was invaluable, and people who grow up so completely privileged that it breeds this complacency and lack of desire to question or challenge or do anything significant. Those are the types of people who become partners at the corporate law firms.
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
I don't feel like I've ever done anything - even 'Big Momma's House' - that I didn't really have some desire to do.
