I have gained confidence in front of the camera.
No, I gained weight while playing the role of Rodney Mckay on Stargate Atlantis… breakfast burritos and a near endless supply of donuts.
I’ve worn a lot of humdingers in my time, but as a model it’s my duty – my responsibility – to bring life to any garment. That can be challenging when it comes to high fashion, where the creations can be very eccentric, but I’ve gained a reputation for being the go-to girl who can pull it off.
It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.
My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.
When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and then New York. But I’ve been to enough places to have gained a greater appreciation for the beauty and rich culture of all of Rhode Island. I am grateful for all that it offered during my childhood.
I am able to do social service only because of the name I gained from acting.
I’ve gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.
The crazy part, with all of the surgeries I had, I retained water from the IV fluids, and I gained 60 pounds. I was 247 pounds at my maximum. I couldn’t even touch my face because my joints were swollen. I was so big, it was ridiculous – just insane.
I was 28 before I started putting on productions. I got in the back door by doing fringe shows and a lot of assisting, and I learned on the job. There weren’t many female directors when I was starting out. I slowly gained confidence and understanding of the theater, but on my own terms.
It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense of Einsteinian space-time. I am free of the nimbyism of now, and feel a strong kinship with both the dead and the unborn.
After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.
I felt very vulnerable after ‘Sleeping with the Fishes’; I gained weight for the role. I felt a bit out of my skin in the movie, and it was hard to watch.
With age, I’ve gained confidence.
I’ve gained a lot of experience playing with some of the top players in the world from different countries.
Sports has given me the opportunity to travel around the world and see new countries and meet so many different people. I’ve gained new perspectives.
The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I’ve gotten. I don’t feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old – it was a miraculous event.
For ‘Baahubali,’ I gained eight or nine kilos for the warrior look. But for ‘Saaho,’ I didn’t need look like that.
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
My daughter told me, ‘Daddy, if I don’t make it, I don’t want you to stop helping these other kids.’ So that’s where I’ve been able to go on. I tell people – and I really believe this – I didn’t lose a daughter; I gained so many other kids.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
There’s a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.
My personal style really started in my teens when I gained purchasing power to actually buy my own damn clothes. For so long, my parents dictated what I wore, which largely was their way of containing me within the gender binary.
It was a great time here in the States this year, and definitely I feel like I’m playing well again. I gained a lot of confidence in the last couple of weeks, and I just have to, you know, keep going and keep the momentum now.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
‘Dilwale’ has increased my audience reach; I have gained in every way possible.
Starting young has definitely helped my success. All the experience I gained by touring with other players as a backing artist helped to prepare me for my own big break.
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being ‘tough’; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
I love having a major label behind me. Independent was really great to start off, as and I made some really big moves and gained a lot of fans.
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
I am able to do social service only because of the name I gained from acting.
I obviously appreciate all the fans I gained from my band, but there weren’t enough of them to make me a very successful artist. To me, being successful is selling a lot of records and selling out big venues on tour, and it’s not up to anyone else to decide what success is for me.
When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.
Gays and lesbians gained rights in this country though activism and organizing, creating political space and demanding change so that lawmakers and justices could do what they knew was right. That organizing allowed Americans to get to know gays and lesbians as our daughters and sons, our neighbors, and our friends.
I had problems growing up. I had a sudden growth spurt at 15 or 16, and I got a lot of injuries as a result. I gained all this muscle, and my bones couldn’t cope. I used to get so tired.
My job is just to be more consistent and if I can keep being more repeatable, have my dispersion be a little less as I’m hitting it farther, there’s a lot of strokes to be gained there.
There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older… That is what’s so hard and exciting about being a human being.
Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.
I’ve learnt so much over time and with the experience that I’ve gained. You can’t please everyone.
The AAC at Royal Melbourne was a wonderful memory for me. I had a slightly disappointing finish, but I gained a lot of experience by playing in the last group.
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
I lived in China for 9 years straight. I saw how my Chinese friends benefited and gained much more freedom to determine the course of their lives, their jobs, their creative works, and their identities over the course of a decade. Much of this increased freedom is thanks to economic engagement by the West.
Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.
Foreign policy is painstakingly difficult, and if there is to be anything gained from the experience in Libya, it is how not to conduct world affairs.
In creating superdelegates, the Democratic Party recognized the expertise that its top holders of public office have gained by running for office themselves. They are experts at winning. They know the issues. They are in a unique position to evaluate presidential candidates.
We assume that everything’s becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that’s true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
I gained my inspiration from former U.S. president Barack Obama, because he tries to do things differently, things which other people do in an ordinary manner.
I have known Casemiro for a very long time and in those years he has gained a lot of experience.
By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.
I’ve learned a tremendous amount. I’ve gained a lot of experience competing at the highest level with the best drivers in the world in F1.
