Vampires were an excellent springboard. I still love them; they fascinate me.
An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents.
The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do they gave me the springboard.
Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.
Quite often in life when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with
I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that but I knew it would have destroyed me.
In order to dream you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.
We're given the springboard of the text a plane ticket told to report to Alabama and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that through all its permutations had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
I let the whole 'Grease' experience be a springboard for me. I wanted to use the exposure I got from that very wisely to continue a successful career. It's taken a lot of work and perseverance.
Living in New Zealand that's something that you'd like to do as an actor but very rarely do you get an opportunity to get such a good springboard as 'The Hobbit' to help you get international work.
Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.
Expectation is the springboard of achievement.
Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.
Rosie Grier was the springboard to the return of my life.
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer opening up new worlds to everyone.
Problems obstacles and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations or they can become the springboard into a whole new world.
Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing continuous non-stop personal development literally assures you that there is no limit to what you can accomplish.
A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.
[Townies] was a great springboard obviously because Jenna [Elfman] went from that to Dharma & Greg and a few years later Lauren [Graham] went to Gilmore Girls.
To me there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.