Quotes About Passion

I found reading musical notation frightfully boring.

I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

I'm a big Cate Blanchett fan. I'm ready. I'm coming! I mean, come on, I am a gay girl; I want what I want. I want to come to Australia and marry Cate Blanchett. Just let everybody know for me.

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

I am ready to rot in jail that art may live.

If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach of first getting photos and an agent. I think you should start with the work, and the other stuff will follow. As with 'opportunity knocks,' you have to be ready.

An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!

Though I'm getting a lot of acting offers, I'd like to enter only when I'm ready. My first love will always be music.

I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready.

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.

As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.

The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.

Real ballers don't golf.

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

I've liked Kiss from when I was three years old. I've seen them, the real deal, with all the original members when they came back in '96 and all that, and that's fine.

I joined a band because I didn't like school, and there's nothing else I'd rather have done. If I really wanted to make money, I'd be in real estate. But I'm rich enough. I have a son and daughter, a lovely home, and if I see something I like, I can buy it. That's rich enough.

First and foremost, I'm a real estate person. And that's what I love the most.