The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously with terrible consequences.
For me 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself finding out who I was learning the power I could have as a performer.
Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful you can open up a world of opportunities.
I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.
Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.
I enjoyed studying costume learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.
When we think about online learning it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet even a guy as smart and insightful as that 30 years ago can say things like 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa that is learning about the present through history which is what I do for a living.
I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it I convinced myself it must be invaluable.
Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.
I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music it is about what happens when you are doing the music.
A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality why things go wrong why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else it's to do with me.
When I was 8 years old I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts and put me in a school.
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English which is why my English today is still bad.
Now for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate which is really for all that's written about the Senate an unknowing world and its mores and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.
After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.
Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.
Generally I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.
Life is about learning when you stop learning you die.
Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things but learning another way to think about things.
Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money how you make it and how you spend it reflect your character.