I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world.
I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it’s been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I’ve seen modeled in my family – my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond.
The same way that I know that I’ll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as ‘Forrest Gump,’ I know that I’ll never do a movie as bad as ‘Bonfire of the Vanities.’
Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
The city of Oakland, since I got here, has been like my second family. They’ve taken me in and had my back through the hard times and they’ve celebrated with me through the good times. And so, I love Oakland.
Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.
When I was 19, I celebrated my first Valentine’s Day while being in a relationship. I was so excited, but didn’t know what the rules were. What should I get him, or was I even supposed to get him something?
I couldn’t possibly have any regrets, because I’ve been very lucky, I’ve been celebrated, and I’ve survived. I couldn’t have one single regret. That would be absurd.
Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.
I knew that I wanted to create a restaurant like Hard Rock Cafe or Planet Hollywood that celebrated not just music or Hollywood, but who we were as people of color, as Caribbean, African, Cajun and Southern people.
Being a black woman in America and the world and in corporate situations is something to be celebrated.
I like to accentuate the feminine form, so I’m a big fan of corsets. A woman’s body is beautiful and should be shown off and celebrated. I love a simple and elegant dress that highlights my waist.
I have made a career of flop films. And yet, 90 percent of my films are celebrated.
If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.
On Mother’s Day, I like to feel pampered. I like to feel celebrated. I like to feel honored. I like to feel glamorous.
Every thing in life that’s first should be a celebration or celebrated with a lot of oomph.
There are a lot of actors in the world, there’s a small number that actually get to work as actors, and there is a tiny group of actors that are celebrated in the way that I have been. I feel incredibly lucky.
Black girls are punished, many times violently so, for questioning and challenging authority, which is something that is often celebrated and encouraged as a sign of intelligence and critical thinking in white boys.
There is much about the shared terrain of being a black person in the United States that is not seen on small or silver screens or in museums or best-selling books, and much of what gets ignored in the mainstream thrives, and is celebrated, on Twitter.
The need for a detailed, comprehensive examination of the Saturn system became clear during the early 1980s, after the two Voyager spacecraft made flybys of the planet. These celebrated events were the opening acts in the story of humanity’s exploration of Saturn.
‘Out of many, one’ is the national motto, and what the Founders imagined it meant is that out of the great and celebrated differences between us comes one nation and one larger purpose.
I’ve been overlooked, praised, questioned, lauded, labeled, celebrated, and derided – sometimes all in the span of a single week. That’s life in the NFL.
Leading Christian theologians such as Augustine and Aquinas were not what today might be called ‘strict constructionists.’ Rather, they celebrated reason as the means to gain greater insight into divine intentions.
For many on the Right, America is to be routinely celebrated because it stands for free enterprise and global power; for many on the Left, America merits perpetual suspicion and censure for the self-same reasons.
I always celebrated my birthdays with my parents. There is no question of not being with them on that day.
There’s a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political point of view. I don’t believe in bringing any politics to an idea like feminism. I love the idea that women should be celebrated, but I also believe men should be, too. We need both – yin and yang.
One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.
When I was coming up, we didn’t have the movement of Black Girl Magic or Black Girls Rock, but my parents made it their business to make sure I saw positive images of myself and celebrated images of black women.
I think barefaced, minimal makeup happens mostly on editorial shoots. And I’ve taken a swing at minimal makeup here and there, but I think a lot of what drag celebrates is the opposite of that. I think the inauthenticity and the hyperfemininity is part of why it’s so celebrated.
The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me.
My mother is Jewish. We celebrated all the Jewish holidays at home.
Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.
I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture.
There’s part of our culture where uniqueness is celebrated and appreciated and another part of our culture where this one way to be – one color hair, one sized breasts, one kind of nose – that’s also front and center.
I was definitely considered different growing up. I learned that being me was all right because my family celebrated those differences.
I actually have great respect for the professionals on both sides, journalism designers in the fashion industry, and I wanted to make a movie that celebrated what they did as much as poke fun at the challenges of their lives.
I am proud of the fact that we live in a country where all festivals are celebrated with the same energy.
Guide’ is not just my most iconic film. It is also Dev’s most celebrated work. But I almost didn’t do ‘Guide.’
The club scene was really like a… they really weren’t sure if I was a girl or a transsexual. When they found out, it was celebrated instead of ‘Ssshh! Don’t tell anyone!’ That felt really liberating.
Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.
I’d watch shows like ‘The Kids in the Hall’ or ‘Twin Peaks,’ and I’d see weird people being celebrated and appreciated without compromising their weirdness. On ‘The Facts of Life,’ I’d see girls who were pudgy, beautiful, popular, tomboyish – many ways of being female – and I’d feel quietly reassured.
Of all forms of diversity that should be celebrated on university campuses, none is more important than supporting, nurturing, and promoting intellectual diversity.
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
In England, gossiping is not as commonplace or even celebrated as much as it is in Latino culture. But it is not as frowned upon as it is in the United States by U.S. Americans.
It didn’t really sink in for me when I first heard that we would be supporting RHCP. But when I heard people around us commenting on how incredible it is to be on tour with such a celebrated band, that’s when it finally sunk in and realised what a remarkable honour it is to tour with RHCP.
I think what should be celebrated about our campaign is we have over 3 million people who have contributed to our campaign – teachers, firefighters, nurses, retirees. They’re making up the backbone of this field organization in the country.
I’m a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he’s an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.
