#learned

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#because #been #childhood #demented #early

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved. ↗

— Greg Lake

#because #biggest #biggest lesson #fun #i

I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#area #areas #been #before #body

I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#finally #i #learned #love #myself

Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance. ↗

— Derek Luke

#anything #being #being honest #confidence #denzel

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ↗

— Dudley Field Malone

#any #anything #i #learned #life

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does. ↗

— Ben Okri

#changes #does #down #go #i

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear. ↗

— John Mayall

#art #art school #ear #i #learned

At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#amazing #because #camaraderie #coming #could

As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them. ↗

— James McGreevey

#came #climbed #compromises #easy #electoral