Quotes About Dedication

The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.

I want to be around people that are just as enthusiastic about the process and storytelling as I am.

I grew up with sports, but I was definitely not good enough to become a professional athlete - I just loved the storytelling aspect of it.

I bent my head over a stove in my early 20s and picked it up in my 30s.

At my first Olympics, I didn't have a contract, and I wasn't making any money. After my first Olympics, I was working at 24 Hour Fitness at the front desk. I would go to practice in the morning, run home, shower, grab some food and then go straight to work. I didn't get off of work until 10 or 11 o'clock at night.

Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper, and what will keep me straight.

I love my job, but it's intense, and it's serious, and it's straight, and it can be really harrowing.

I am not perfect, but my faith keeps me as close to the straight and narrow as possible.

It's important to be dedicated and enthusiastic when you're starting a career. It might take a long time to get established and the money won't flow in straight away.

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.

Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when men and women of character step forward to look danger and adversity straight in the eye, refusing to blink, or give ground, even to their own deaths. The protected can't begin to understand the price paid so they and their families can sleep safe and free at night.

I'm not a full-fledged producer, but I can be one if I want to really spend my time on straight being a producer.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

I couldn't have accomplished the things in my career if I didn't practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says 'Allen, I don't like practice, either.' I've got to straighten that kid right then.

My motivation is being the best. Pretty simple and straightforward.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

My criteria is simple, I require fantastic actors who are ready to give their best and are easy to work with. I don't like people with a lot of baggage and rather those who are simple and straightforward and their agenda is to make a brilliant film.

I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.

Dancers are working their bodies just like a marathon runner would, and you have to eat to make it through a three-hour performance. Dancers put their bodies through incredible strain.

There was never any strain, because it becomes a strain only if you don't love what you are doing. I loved every moment of making these films.

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

Football is a strange game.