#decided

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#career #decided #how #i #move

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#actor #age #already #anyone #day

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to. ↗

— Brian Eno

#being #being lied to #decided #done #eccentric

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#happen #i #knew #once #published

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#book #decided #i #into #me

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#any #before #chance #decided #done

The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#care #decided #different #different parts #doctors

I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time. ↗

— Brian Clough

#carefully #decided #i #moment #pick

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#agreement #anything #clinton #compromise #decided

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#campaign contributions #contributions #decided #public #question