“I ran my first race the end of March, 1976. And less than four months later I was Olympic champion. But I had the background. It's not like I just ran one day and all of a sudden became a champion. It was a lot of work.” FirstsEndsRaceFourMonthsOne DayBackgroundsRanChampionMarch Author:Edwin Moses
“Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.” ArtEyeDifficultFourPaintingArt IsDifficultyCornersBackgroundsDifficult Things Book:Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated Source: Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated
“I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand, actually. So three times a week I would have long, two-hour sessions with her just working on the nuance of the accent, which I had had a huge background in because I went to drama school in England for four years.” YearsLongTwoSchoolThreeHoursFourWeekHugeDramaEnglandCoachesBackgroundsShootingFour YearsAccentsThree TimesSessionNuanceDialectThailandSkypeDialect Coach Author:Lake Bell
“I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.” YearsSchoolFourHugeDramaEnglandBackgroundsFour YearsAccentsNuanceSkypeDialect Coach Author:Lake Bell
“And then, one acting class turned into two, turned into four, and then turned into, "I love this. I could do this for the rest of my life. But, I don't have a background in acting. I never acted in college, or did anything like that. How can I go about doing this?" That meant going to grad school and getting some training, and I did. I literally walked down the path. It was real fortuitous for me to walk by that school, that one morning.” TwoRealSchoolWalksActingClassMorningPathFourCollegeTrainingBackgroundsActing ClassesGradGrad SchoolFortuitous Author:Tim Kang