I think I would've found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you're creative, you find something, eventually.
I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
Connecticut's arts community provides an incredible amount of good for our state and supports thousands of jobs.
In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.
Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people.
I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.
The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.
The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.
Girls are breaking barriers and boundaries every day in everything from sports and science to business and the creative arts.
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.
Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
1936 is a very important year: a golden time for martial arts, right before the Japanese invasion.
I had studied at the NYU School of the Arts under Lloyd Richards, who also worked with the Negro Ensemble Company.
They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.
It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.
Was I a Jackie Chan-level martial arts master? Absolutely not! Not by any stretch of the imagination. I'm an actor. I'm a performer.
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience.
You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.
I love to learn, and that's the really cool thing about martial arts - you're always learning new things.
From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.
I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.
My love for cricket, body-building and martial arts later helped me in modeling and then acting.
A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.
My becoming an actor wasn't planned. My interest always lied in sports such as football, martial arts, gymnastics and dance.
We must build a thriving and inclusive arts, restaurant, and nightlife scene to reflect Boston's culture and diversity.
I studied digital arts and graphic design, and then, at the same time I was studying, I was still doing auditions.
Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.
I so admire the discipline, the work ethic, and the sacrifices fighters make to master all aspects of mixed martial arts.
Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.
Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.
Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.
The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.
I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.
I don't see the arts as competitive at all. It was a better angel of my nature. Sports is zero-sum: winner, loser, demonstrable.
Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker.
I think the arts are absolutely necessary for children to be creative and express themselves because every child is different.
All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.
Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.
Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.
A civilised society ought to make ample provision for everyone, no matter their background, to enjoy the arts and culture.
Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.
We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.
Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.
Well, I grew up in Hell's Kitchen, right next to Times Square, in a subsidized arts building.
The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.
When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.
I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.
I used to work out for eight hours a day, which includes running, boxing and martial arts.
I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
I got a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Catholic University of America in D.C. and started working as an understudy at the Arena.
From an early age, I knew I wanted to pursue a life in the arts, and so I was acting in plays all throughout high school.
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