#handed

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#connect #even #excite #getting #handed

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#cia #compromised #handed #i #many

There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed. ↗

— Andy Dick

#both #christians #groups #heavy-handed #little

The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life. ↗

— Edie Falco

#anything #body #came #felt #handed

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them. ↗

— Eric Church

#handed #just #many #people #them

I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like every actor. It wasn't like someone handed it to me. ↗

— Donnie Wahlberg

#become #every #face #had #handed

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet. ↗

— Michael Winslow

#art #artists #blessing #break #curse

You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#consider #excuse #given #handed #handled

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age. ↗

— Kelly Millar

#any #civilization #down #generation #handed

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. ↗

— Stephen King

#basic #basic elements #change #choose #elements