Just to be able to release an album back in the day when I came out was very gratifying. Most people were not given the opportunity.
With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
It's especially gratifying to have done a film like 'Eight Men Out' because it's hard not to have fun when there are so many bats and balls around.
When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.
The gratifying part of my journey is no one calls me a star child or a superstar's wife anymore. I think I have grown beyond that and have my own identity.
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.
I have to say one of the most gratifying things about being in this industry for a long time is you do develop a genuine sense of community with the people you know and collaborate with.
I think fans acknowledged the effort I have made as a solo artist and as a member of Bigbang throughout the years. It is a very humbling yet gratifying achievement for me.
It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.
If you can live with the ups and downs, pick yourself up every morning, then there's nothing more gratifying.
Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.
It's called 'John Wick' - it's really about this guy's very simple journey. We just didn't want to clutter it. It's gratifying it in its own right, in its simplicity.
The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.
It is a challenge to work away from India and with a cast and crew from all over the world. But it's also very gratifying, and you learn so much by just being with them.
I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this way happens to be mine.
The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.
Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music.
For me, the most gratifying projects are ones that have the potential to bring people together - to overcome differences among various groups, and to spark dialogue.
I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong.
My favorite job is the next one. It's such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a different direction.
There's nothing more gratifying than making someone laugh in today's time when everybody is grappling with some issue or the other.
Basketball is a beautiful game and it's afforded all of us in this profession so many things. To give back any time we can is gratifying.
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.
As I've grown older, I've developed an appreciation for wines that are immediately gratifying but that can also provide great satisfaction over several years.
I love the outdoor festival feeling. When I'm on stage, it's very gratifying to watch people on the lawns enjoying the music with a glass of wine.
There are only a few genres, horror and comedy, where you can get that immediate feedback from the audience. It's very gratifying when that's what you're going for, and you can hear the reactions in all the places that you intended.
Working with Woody Allen was extremely gratifying. He has such a vast catalog of great work that doing one of his films was somewhat unreal.
MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.
If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt.
I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.
A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.
Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do.
Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!
It's gratifying to see people come up to me and thank me for entertaining them.
With comedies, it's been very gratifying to be able to clock in, laugh all day, and then clock out.
How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)
Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.
There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.
I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.
To be awarded with an honour of the stature of a Padma Bhushan, which is deemed as one of the three highest civilian awards in our country, is just gratifying.
I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.
It's always gratifying to hear that people are excited by something that you've been excited to make.
Almost every culture has its own variation on chicken soup, and rightly so - it's one of the most gratifying dishes on the face of the Earth.
Sometimes the best parts are the leading men. But the little parts can be similarly gratifying.
I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing 9 to 5 was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it’s so rarely in the hands of women.
My favorite job is the next one. Its such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a different direction.
Stony Brook is a phenomenal university and I am proud to be affiliated with it, so it is gratifying to be able to support this wonderful institution in whatever way I can.
You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.
Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.
William Devane was amazing [ in The Grinder] - that we were able to reinvent an acting legend as a comedy star - that's very gratifying.
[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.
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