#told

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#eloquent #only #song #story #telling

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#actress #audition #countless #education #every

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#believer #created #else #guess #his

If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying. ↗

— Aaron Neville

#i #lying #making #me #say

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength. ↗

— Gary Neville

#awareness #coach #condition #determine #factors

We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was. ↗

— Gary Neville

#bury #cafe #drinking #drive #even

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#amusing #another #been #delivery #i

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#anybody #fight #girlfriend #love #me

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#better #compliment #defeat #extremely #i

The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#books #daughter #decision #earlier #else