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I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.
Joe Pantoliano
Movies
,
Successful
,
Children
I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.
Berkeley Breathed
Stupid
,
Saying
,
Him
As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.
Joan D. Vinge
Past
,
Snow
,
Writing
I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
Sam Raimi
Place
,
Film
,
Interested
One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private.
Graham Swift
Yourself
,
Writing
,
Means
Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.
Peter Guber
Business
,
Fear
,
School
The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.
David Lloyd
Book
,
Last
,
Beginning
What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.
Joshua Bell
Violin
,
Instrument
,
Mastering
I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.
Sarah Vowell
Big
,
Reader
,
Closed
Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing.
Tomas Transtromer
Life
,
Feeling
,
Through
That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.
Stephan Jenkins
Music
,
Rock
,
Place
I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.
Meg White
Cool
,
Said
,
Her
Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.
Alison Bechdel
Home
,
School
,
Wait
Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.
Karl Radek
Life
,
Time
,
Strength
Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.
Robert Musil
Time
,
Together
,
Through
In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part.
Melissa Joan Hart
Character
,
Different
,
Picture
I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.
Spike Jonze
Love
,
Kids
,
Picture
Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.
Carrie Preston
Love
,
Humor
,
Girl
What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.
Antony Sher
Place
,
Acting
,
Disguise
I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.
Joe Shuster
Art
,
Give
,
Free
If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.
Billy Campbell
Dreams
,
Fact
,
Ask
When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.
Bob Kane
Him
,
Eyes
I still think I'm writing Nancy Drew with a mortgage.
Lisa Scottoline
Writing
,
Mortgage
,
Nancy
The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
Douglas Hurd
War
,
Different
,
Two
I wasn't able to make the full commitment until I met 'Celebrity Rehab's' Dr. Drew.
Steven Adler
Able
,
Until
,
Full
There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.
Samuel Wilson
Next
,
Ability
,
King
I guess because I'm so young, I m not sure of what lies ahead for me. I'm more into going the route of producing and directing. I just made a little short film. I'm more excited about going the route of doing a Drew Barrymore or... what's the one from 'Star Wars?'
Heather Morris
Made
,
Young
,
Short
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
David E. Price
Experience
,
Study
,
Both
I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to plaster my whole walls with them when I was a kid.
Sarah Burton
Remember
,
Whole
,
Used
'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
Lance Reddick
Reality
,
Social
,
Fiction
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