Pastoral Resources

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.

I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.

Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.