Yaddo Artist Quotes & Sayings

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself. — James McGreevey

I've gone to Yaddo many times, I've worked at the Rockefeller Foundation's Center for Scholars and Artists in Bellagio. That these are places of beauty and of changed landscape is helpful - but far more important for me is that they offer what I feel as a monastic luxury: undisturbed time. — Jane Hirshfield

Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you're on film or going for an audition. — Mia Wasikowska

To make my body a temple pure
Wherein I dwell serene;
To care for the things that shall endure,
The simple, sweet and clean.
To oust out envy and hate and rage,
To breathe with no alarm;
For Nature shall be my anchorage,
And none shall do me harm. — Robert Service

Some must delve when the dawn is nigh;
Some must toil when the noonday beams;
But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh,
Every man is a King of Dreams. — Clinton Scollard

I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our projects was collecting snakes and creating an environment for them, so I'm quite familiar with snakes and think they're fantastic creatures. — Harrison Ford

Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so. — James Hudson Taylor

Be your own boss. If you're aiming for true wealth and freedom consider starting your own business. — Timi Nadela

Being a grown up was rubbish, Dave decided. — Dave Turner

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up. — Emma Donoghue

The legal system is blatantly rigged against the common people. — Steven Magee

I did like hanging out with all the rock'n'roll boys - it was fun but all those relationships didn't work out. — Denise Van Outen