#encouraged

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#encouraged #father #go #his #into

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive. ↗

— Lee Child

#big #bigger #british #cliff #either

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#being #brazil #career #death #encouraged

You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#encouraged #more #over #own #pitch

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#canada #encouraged #large #place #really

I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift! ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#drastic #encouraged #few #i #i think

We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public along with us, trying to make as much available as possible over time. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#available #brought #encouraged #had #hearings

That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.' ↗

— J. C. Watts

#black #blacks #cut #down #encouraged

We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#encouraged #everything #find #funny #i

I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#attorney #attorney general #big #encouraged #friends