I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him.
My family background is Mexican, and I was born in Chicago. It’s pretty much family tradition every time we get together for Christmas and major holidays to sing. Our family time is centered around the food and a little bit of performing for one another.
I come from a family of Russian immigrant Jews who were all big storytellers, who would get together, and one would try to top the others’ stories, and stories would get bigger and bigger. And the lying aspect, the exaggeration, would get large.
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That’s the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don’t talk about football or anything like that.
I get a little freaked out when I’m around too many redheads. I only have about one or two red-haired friends, and when a bunch of us get together, I feel like there’s going to be a fight that breaks out or something.
Women are so strong and knowledgeable. You know, instead of competing with each other, I would love to complete each other. Take away that wall of competition and say, ‘Hey, let’s just all get together and help each other be brilliant.’
I mean, obviously when you’ve a lot of time on your hands, you get together and you’re always always debating that team vs. that team, that player vs. that player, all these hypothetical matchups.
The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in.
We only get together when there’s a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn’t really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52’s tour was a good opportunity.
We’ve always considered our music to be a healing process. It’s our ‘tool’ to work things out with each other and try to communicate with each other and learn things. And it’s good for everyone – us and our audience – to get together.
Music is a big passion for me, and whenever we all friends get together we play guitar, sing songs and play games.
I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.
My parents are both musicians and made sure we all played music. My brothers and sisters all play instruments, so we’ll get together whenever we can and play. We play a lot of classical music – you know, the good stuff.
I started off as a rapper from Thunder Bay, Ontario, believe it or not. There was a little group of 10 or 12 of us that would get together and copy each other’s cassettes. So I was a rapper first, and it was that music that got me into this great entertainment world and got me out of Thunder Bay.
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
You can get together, you can talk as much as you want, but if there’s not a decision-making process – that’s where democracy really matters.
We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.
Do you have the same vision of where industry is going as the target of your acquisition? If visions differ, you might get together economically for a while, but then you are going to have problems.
I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates – I wouldn’t dignify it with the term band – get together and play.
We didn’t talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was ‘It’s your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent.
Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how do we get together now around the world and get out of the mess that we’ve made. That’s the key thing now. Never mind how we got to be who we are.
There are conferences every year where all the major coaches get together, and they talk about the issues in wrestling, what’s going to happen. There’s a major governing body, U.S.A. Wrestling, which oversees a lot of the issues. The organization is there in wrestling to make a very well-balanced, organized system.
I would hope to get together with the Latino community, if I could ever have them talk to me without screaming and threatening me. So I hope to get together with the community and try to explain what we do, so that’s going to be one of my missions coming up.
Will I do another tour with Paul? Well, that’s quite do-able. When we get together, with his guitar, it’s a delight to both of our ears. A little bubble comes over us, and it seems effortless. We blend.
Just because two guys are homosexual and happen to be the only two homosexuals on-screen doesn’t mean they’re going to be like, ‘Oh yeah, let’s get together!’ It doesn’t always happen like that.
In Asia, it’s customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it’s all rife with politics.
I’m just always a bit thrown when, in the immediate aftermath of some event which makes us feel like either God’s out to get us or He’s not doing His job as well as He can, we all still get together and continue to ask Him for help.
Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It’s not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.
There is something special when creative people get together.
We have this beautiful tradition at Bayern that we all get together with our families after the game in a room and celebrate the wins. That is why it hurts a lot more when we lose.
In Chicago, actors start up companies and get together and produce things, and there’s a really rich, vibrant non-Equity theater scene out there.
What I’ve learnt from ‘Friends’ is don’t let the characters get together because then it won’t be as good afterwards.
I was writing a third novel when my kids arrived. And I looked at that book about whether these two people would get together, and I thought, ‘I don’t care! I’ve got kids!’
If I was in office, I’d get together all the chiefs and all the heads and chiefs of staffs of all the countries and explain to them like, ‘This is how it’s going to be. We need y’all oil and water. Y’all need our money and technology. Now, what y’all gon’ do?’
The ‘Moonlighting’ tension of the couple that obviously never can get together, there’s an innate sort of fun and tension in that.
I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we’d get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.
Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.
I think sports can help any country get together.
I don’t agree with superstitious routines, but there are a couple of things I’ll always do before performing. I’ll get together with the band and chill out, and then, just before I go on stage, I’ll always check my flies.
When Dee Snider and I get together for breakfast, it’s just two Long Island guys hanging out.
Once a month, I get together with my girlfriends and we usually check into a hotel or go to someone else’s house. We can talk for 15 hours, and it just flies by.
Women should get together and become the pillars of support for each other.
Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around.
In the past, if a homeowner with a mortgage had a problem making the payment, often he’d get together with a lender and strike a deal, because foreclosures are very expensive to the lender and obviously not good for the homeowner and the community.
I don’t think we have to make a big thing about being gay, except for when we get together for these gay pride events.
My interactions with my family members are all one-to-one. We don’t all get together for Thanksgiving dinner. But I can sit and tell any one of them about a conversation that I just had with the other one, and they’re all curious and interested and respectful.
I’ve seen friends get together with someone who’s not single, and thought, ‘God, don’t’ – but then it has worked out. Equally, I’ve seen friends go through terrible times, but still manage to stay together.
I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for ‘Crystal Fairy’, and she was there for ‘Afternoon Delight’. She reached out and wanted to get together.
When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points – ‘Make sure you stay away from this,’ and ‘Don’t say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,’ and that kind of thing.
