#acted

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#africa #always #attracted #bottom #grew

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#father #korea #polio #train #troop

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in. ↗

— Jason Marsden

#certain #distracted #easily #extremely #grab

She usually worked at night, claiming that the racket he made about the house distracted her during the day; she needed silence, total silence, in which to pursue her inspiration - else it fled away and left her with a splitting headache to show for it. ↗

— Helen Hodgman

#headache #inspiration #silence #inspirational

We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting. ↗

— Roger Waters

#contracted #enough #i #interesting #make

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky. ↗

— Jeanne Calment

#clearly #could #i #lucky #morally

I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#angry #attracted #came #down #focus

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#again #honest #i #me #miss

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold. ↗

— John Dyer

#become #deal #decided #exhibited #first

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#any #bangkok #completely #did #ever