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Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.
Emeril Lagasse

Growing, Needed, England

I have a lot of influences. I'm American-schooled. I'm classically trained. I'm a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a lot of degrees, which really don't pay the rent. I have two doctorate degrees, I have a bachelor's degree, but I'm still a cook.
Emeril Lagasse

Two, Pretty, Student

I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
Florence Welch

Writing, Everything, Play

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Work, Family, Politics

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.
Wesley Snipes

Good, Business, Action

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
Alan Cumming

Done, Sometimes, Choose

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.
Idina Menzel

School, Growing, Shows

I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it.
Brian Cox

Mother, Enjoy, Used

People misconstrue when I say I was a dancer. I was not classically trained. I was a street dancer, and I got to do what I did in the nightclubs of New York City.
Michael K. Williams

City, York, Street

What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.
Lesley Garrett

Best, Able, Making

Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.
Lesley Garrett

Inspired, Nobody, Herself

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.
George Hickenlooper

Work, Find, Filmmaker

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.
Wolf Blitzer

Good, Hard, Enough

I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.
Brad Dourif

Good, Means, Lucky

My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think.
Birdy

Mom, Writing, Together

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.
Jacqueline Emerson

School, Started, Four

I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do.
Shuler Hensley

Education, Age, Young

I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.
Vanessa Brown

Love, Music, War

I was classically trained in operetta from about age 4, I think.
Clare Bowen

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