The academy at Abidjan was my school of education. At 16, they sent me the boots and jersey with my name on… — Gervinho Copy Share Image
I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there. — Luke Grimes Copy Share Image
I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Whether you're a presidential front-runner, or an Academy Award-winning actor, or head of a TV ministry, if you stay in the public… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after… — Ailyn Perez Copy Share Image
I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got… — Tatum O'Neal Copy Share Image
Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Sylvester wins, obviously [best actor in a supporting role in 2016]. That's the whole point of this. We're all getting dressed up… — Bun B Copy Share Image
Nuclear industry proponents often assert that low doses of radiation (eg below 100mSV) produce no ill effects and are therefore safe. But… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it… — Alexander Borodin Copy Share Image
I started in theater when I was 14 in the Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side in New York. You… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
When I joined the academy - the equivalent of Clairefontaine - in Martinique, with all the good young players, we used to… — Wendie Renard Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
'Vampire Academy' was a night shoot, so I got to know London in the darkness and had free time during the day.… — Lucy Fry Copy Share Image
I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
When I interviewed profilers in 1984 in the basement of the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA., there were just four of them… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia.… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we… — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
I didn't speak a single word of English when I was told that I was one of the lucky students been selected… — Li Cunxin Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a ballet dancer for awhile there. I had a good teacher at Interlochen, this arts'… — Benjamin Walker Copy Share Image
The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. "Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I had no idea that such a thing could happen. It never occurred to me.My son told me. He called me and… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
I began filmmaking in high school, at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. My first documentary was about a dysfunctional obese middle-aged… — Yony Leyser Copy Share Image
The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
![“Sylvester wins, obviously [best actor in a supporting role in 2016]. That's the whole point of this. We're all getting dressed up to go to the Oscars to hear Sylvester Stallone, let no one get this twisted. The academy can't pay for a better moment than this: this is the Oscar's original darling.” quote by Bun B](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b11/bun-b-10711_academy_sylvester-wins-obviously-best-actor-in-a_583113.jpg)
![“Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.” quote by Joshua Reynolds](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9d4/joshua-reynolds-8159_academy_our-exhibitions-the-royal-academy-have-a_2627320.jpg)
![“They [academy writing programs] have no concept that the world has changed, that publishing has changed, that filmmaking has changed, and if you're not constantly looking at your education model and adjusting for the change, you'll find yourself teaching antiquity. Like all of these programs that…” quote by Tod Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/986/tod-goldberg-17468_academy_they-academy-writing-programs-have-no-co_2761817.jpg)
![“While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam [Hussein], because the dictator was so cruel and brutal that no one could criticize or complain. I felt futile and empty. The only solution in Iraq was to run away.” quote by Hassan Blasim](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5e9/hassan-blasim-14317_academy_while-i-was-studying-film-at-the-academy_1714157.jpg)
