My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.
At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.
When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.
When people are tipsy, they're really encouraged and they wanna prove they can do something to the Heavyweight champion.
The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.
I've been told that I am evil. I've been told that I am behind the persecution of millions of Americans. That I have encouraged hate toward gays. I've received both very brief and obscene messages, and very long and literate messages that tell me a vote for Crash was vote for homophobia.
Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.
Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer.
I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
It is inherently dangerous to allow a country, such as Iraq, to retain weapons of mass destruction, particularly in light of its past aggressive behaviour. If the world community fails to disarm Iraq we fear that other rogue states will be encouraged to believe that they too can have these most deadly of weapons to systematically defy international resolutions and that the world will do nothing to stop them.
We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths.
My parents really encouraged me.
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.
My mother encouraged me and was very great about me being gay, but she always encouraged me to follow my musical dreams, which I'm very grateful for.
The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always at their original superficial level, without receiving guidance in study. Furthermore, the 'three Rs,' the fundamental tools, are neglected as long as possible, with the result that the child's chance to develop his mind is greatly retarded. The policy of teaching words via pictures instead of by the alphabet tends to deprive the young child of the greatest reasoning tool of all.
More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.
To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society
I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor - herbs and spices - to everything because I don't want them getting used to starchy, bland food.