What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design – fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.
Television offers a range and scope, and a degree of creativity and daring, that the bottom-line, global-audience-obsessed, brand-driven movie industry just can’t compete with.
From a young age, watching my father embark on daring, and often dangerous, adventures in the name of Virgin almost become the norm. I’m not saying it became any less nerve-wracking waiting for his safe return – but, over time, it encouraged a new way of thinking for myself and my brother Sam.
I think many young actors want to be daring. They want to surprise their fellow actors as well as their audiences.
Some people thought I was using my popularity as a singer to sell my first novel. For others, it was almost a sacrilege: a practitioner of a minor art daring to enter the field of high art.
Virginia has no shortage of pioneering women who have made history by overcoming doubt and discrimination, by daring to step into roles that had never been held by a woman, and by breaking down barriers for those who would follow.
‘Basic Black with Pearls’, upon its publication in 1980, was greeted with a mix of praise and misunderstanding. Critics sensed its daring and applauded its formal inventiveness, but those qualities also kept people at bay.
‘Priscilla’ was made in 1994, and I think it was kind of daring for its time.
The NAACP ignores the wellspring of racism from within its own ranks, daring to brand anyone who disagrees with the standard they bear for the plantation-politics Democrats as ‘white nationalists.’
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
London is a good fashion city. They’re a little more daring. There’s the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.
If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
I love the way ravens fly; they are the most acrobatic and daring birds.
If I can’t be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don’t really see the point of being on this planet.
Halloween is all about being bold, daring, and creative! You get to be someone else for the night thanks to makeup and a costume. I pretty much do that on the daily, so I am not that big on Halloween, but I do appreciate a good costume and some incredible makeup.
Bruce possessed such a natural athleticism in everything he attempted to do. He seemed to excel in every sport he tried. Whatever he did, he was daring and cut an amazing form.
I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It’s a metropolis, so it’s representative of Holland, but only a part of it – you know, it’s more extreme, there’s more happening, it’s more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.
From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt’s air force during the Six-Day War, to the daring raid on Entebbe, to using all available means to slow the Iranian nuclear program, Israelis have combined strength with ingenuity to keep the country’s enemies at bay.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
Great fear is concealed under daring.
When you’re 25, it’s a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.
Men are angry at women because they aren’t doing what they are supposed to do, which is support men. They are in the workplace claiming their own rights and often outdoing men. They are daring to bring charges of sexual assault and harassment. They are just not behaving themselves!
I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
I became to myself an imaginary figure of great excellence, daring and glamor.
Sweet, loveable, and with every click revealing a new surprise, ‘Botanicula’ creates both a wonderful world where bees and twigs play in the universe and sets up a daring story of a group of unlikely heroes taking on a tree’s last hope of survival.
In daring to re-tell the stories of the last twelve American presidents, both public and private, I knew I would incur some outrage with ‘American Caesars.’
Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
There’s nothing wrong with using the money that you earn to be daring and buy art that you love or that you think is beautiful.
I like to take risks and do weird things and stuff that’s not normal compared to other Hollywood movies. Not stuff that’s totally avant garde and daring, but doing stuff that’s in other languages and not using stars and using real people – things that they generally don’t do in mainstream films.
Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
Atheists have not produced so much evil as hypocrites have produced, or even simply those who preached God without being prepared for Him, daring to pronounce His name with unsanctified lips.
Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.
One has to draw upon one’s own musical thoughts and one’s own musical acumen, and not to be afraid to let that come into one’s work. Perhaps that comes with more experience, but perhaps it also comes with daring, and believing that you should.
Daring to love someone is something we all do.
I love to try the local food wherever I am. But I’m not that adventurous when it comes to eating. I prefer to be safe. I have failed at eating some daring food.
I love to experiment with fashion. A lot of my inspiration comes from my mom. She is fearless with fashion! I love colors and anything daring.
We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Christine was me wanting to break free. I was tired of being prissy and shrinking and apologising all of the time, so I created a character that could be daring for me.
Sometimes it’s natural to do the safe pass, the no-frills thing, to pass it back to the goalkeeper. But I want them to do the daring thing.
I had so much fun developing and launching my first fragrance with Avon, so for my second fragrance, I really wanted to add a little more edge. Outspoken Intense is a provocative blend of sexy confidence and daring femininity that captures the thrill and excitement of being centre stage.
The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.
I like Kamal Haasan’s daring choice of roles. When I was in school and college, I modelled myself on him. I was so much in awe of him.
Christine, as a stage character, is just a way for me to be more daring, to be more out of the box, to be stronger and to use everything that could weigh me down like a fuel, like an energy.
After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.
To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don’t like or don’t get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.
I can be quite daring with my clothes but I believe that you have to feel comfortable and confident to carry off whatever it is you’re wearing.
My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager’s decisions or the performance of his team.
But I would not have been the leader that I hoped to be if I hadn’t put my name forward to represent this community. You have to be daring.
We have a reputation here in the Pelican State for daring to be different. We live in parishes, not counties. We spend our holidays throwing beads at people lining the street. We cook differently. We speak differently – we spell differently. There is no place in the country that compares to Louisiana.
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