I preach with the hope that whoever is inspired, encouraged, intrigued, curious by my life on any level, whether it be parents saying they showed my video to their kids because they were complaining. It is the hope that that parent will go a bit deeper and know that ultimately Nick actually puts his hope into something bigger than himself. He puts it in Jesus Christ.
It's great when improv is encouraged. It's a really fun thing. It depends on who's in the movie and how their process works, as well. It takes a director who is open to that because you have a script, but then something funny could happen on set. So, to have people around you who encourage improv is really exciting.
I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now , consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.
When people are tipsy, they're really encouraged and they wanna prove they can do something to the Heavyweight champion.
Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation.
If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.
Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
With a Trump administration we don't know enough yet to make predictions, but if past behavior is any indication, I am not encouraged.
My father kind of encouraged me through that. Exactly,[work] not as an actor, obviously, but as someone in show business that had some success. He told me to live the impossible. "Live the impossible!"
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people. It's like to look at the world you're in.
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
I realized that after finding this thing that allowed me to express myself - acting - and being encouraged by a few people that I could do it, I had kind of grabbed onto it and dug in my claws in a way that was maybe a bit unhealthy. I allowed myself to get into a headspace where I lived or died by what I achieved in this particular field.
Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer.
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth.
More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.
I'm sure that many people who are involved in an environmental effort. . . they will be pretty much encouraged by this recognition.