Avid Quote by Anjelica Huston Download Open image “I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.” — Anjelica Huston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avid Because Books Children Ireland Television
We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Being a middle-class family back in the 1970s meant we only had one TV... and it wasn't in your room... so when I was… — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
My parents weren't keen on me watching television when I was growing up, in the 70s and 80s, which is ironic given that I've… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now. — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
I grew up without TV, I grew up listening to radio, I grew up reading. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself. — Emily Watson Copy Share Image
I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch movies - movies, movies, and… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I loved working with Stephen Frears. He's a really fantastic director. He knows what he wants and how to get it. — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
During the four years I had spent in New York, I had achieved top status as a model and had worked for the best… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
I was a lonely child. My brother Tony and I were never very close, neither as children nor as adults, but I was tightly… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me. — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth. — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
My father, John Marcellus Huston, was a director renowned for his adventurous style and audacious nature. — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
I don't believe in privacy. I mean, I like the idea of privacy, but I don't believe that it happens anymore. I think privacy… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough. — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces , is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what… — Martin Buber Copy Share
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself... — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke.… — Howard Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I'm an avid bicyclist, so I catch some sun while I'm out bicycling. — Dennis Muilenburg Copy Share Image
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The one constant in this ever changing music business is the heartfelt and “ear to the ground” Indie Record Stores that avid music fans and artists alike know they can count on to keep music thriving locally. I tour all over the world, and it's these Indie Record Stores that many times make or break a market. People will always… — Dale Watson Copy Share
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey -… — Dustin Milligan Copy Share Image