Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris… — Wentworth Miller 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
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award. — Rachael Taylor 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
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a… — Glenn Hoddle Copy Share Image
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato Copy Share Image
My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy. — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
Twenty-eight years ago, I created my first game on an Apple II in my bedroom closet at a time when the interactive… — Richard Garriott 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
I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career. — David Naughton Copy Share Image
The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia… — Louis Finkelstein 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
At the Academy Awards every year, there are best-dressed stars - and worst-dressed stars. But it's the worst-dressed that go down in… — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school… — Don Rickles 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
