I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire for creativity and fulfillment through pottery and ceramics.
In this quote, Julie Andrews shares her longing to learn pottery, highlighting her passion for collecting ceramics. This indicates not only an appreciation for beautiful objects but also the joy and satisfaction that comes from creating something artistic and meaningful with one’s own hands.
In practice
This quote can be shared in an art class to inspire students to explore their creative passions.
I've learned a lot of things about myself through singing. I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn`t really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life.
Singing has been a cherished gift, and my inability to sing has been a devastating blow.
My mother was terribly important to me, and I know how much I yearned for her in my youth, but I don't think I truly trusted her.
I come from a long line of below-stairs maids and gardeners. Good ol' peasant stock. My mother and her sister made a quantum leap out of that life. Then I made another quantum leap.
Every time I go out to perform, believe me. You never lose that fear of, 'I hope I do it right. I hope I don't fall flat on my face. I hope this will be good for them.'
Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, ‘God, wasn't it wonderful.’
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.
It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!
We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.
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