Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom’s home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch.
There have been a handful of assignments over the years that I’ve had to turn down due to time constraints, and I was fairly envious when I saw the finished product, beautifully illustrated by someone else.
A lot of people don’t like to spend money on a journal because they’re afraid to wreck it, which is understandable. I buy beautifully made leather-bound journals because I have lost my fear of the blank page.
All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
What he’s done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It’s beautifully realised – it’s a beat film.
‘Cunnamulla’ is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.
I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully.
One of my style commandments is to always have beautifully radiant skin.
My father was a scientist and his colleagues were into pathology and microbiology, and study of viruses and how it spreads and mutates, so I understand the beauty with which nature works and more beautifully how our immune systems work.
My kiss in ‘Kalyug’ was beautifully shot.
There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It’s not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
You owe it to yourself to live beautifully. And I am.
There’s so many films from around the world, I emphasize, that are so beautifully photographed, but they don’t get the recognition.
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
Event cinema is what it is, and I understand why it’s successful. It started with things like ‘Jaws,’ which are extraordinary movies. But what we’ve lost are great character films which are beautifully directed and had great movie stars in them. Films that were about something rather than about spectacle.
I think clothes hang beautifully on thin women.
The fact that technology has developed so much gives you the liberty to tell the stories, which were difficult to say earlier. It allows you to tell it more convincingly, more elaborately and more beautifully.
There is genuine healing in a beautifully crafted musical theatre song, like Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Losing My Mind,’ or a pop music gem like Joni Mitchell’s ‘Help Me.’
I don’t sing beautifully or grandly or in a very ‘moving’ way. I am me – which is not very beautiful at times, and not very organised or regular.
Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations… With basketball, you can correct your own mistakes, immediately and beautifully, in midair.
Any football game, you can be hit one way or another. It’s not the safest sport that we play; it’s a beautifully violent game, and that’s what, in part, I love about it.
Being married, I don’t know how to describe it. It’s very comfortable when you find the right person. It all comes together beautifully.
The rules of improvisation apply beautifully to life. Never say no – you have to be interested to be interesting, and your job is to support your partners.
For me, not just the character of ‘Ender’, but the whole world is so beautifully crafted in the novel that I wasn’t sure how it could be brought to the screen – but Gavin has done it justice, and he’s done it amazingly.
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
I think private school is much better at customer service and making the parents feel better, especially in Los Angeles. It’s almost like a spa for the parents where you drop your kids off, where they give you a beautifully baked thing and let the parents write their own newsletter about global warming.
Oh, ‘Pandaemonium’, by Chris Brookmyre! Just fabulous – such a layered, beautifully structured, engaging, intelligent book. I love all Chris’s stuff, but this was remarkable.
It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.
There are other singers of ranchera music who sing very beautifully, but you can tell from the way they sing that they never lived on a ranch. They never knew what it was to milk a cow, to birth a calf, to shoe a horse. I’ve lived all that.
After over 50 years of headlining, I’ve been received very beautifully. But I always say, when you’re onstage, you can’t please everybody. I’m sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that’s OK.
I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It’s eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully.
I like Kelela. I like Twigs. I love the more old school; I hate to say old school, but I love Peaches; I love Peaches, I love Cat Power. And there’s constantly new things coming up. But there’s something so beautifully powerful – for me being a woman, when there’s a woman doing something, it really strikes a chord.
We had our own version of the seven vows, which Abhinav has written beautifully. Each vow touched my heart deeply.
I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted – Daddy’s was rifle green. Beautifully made.
My father has a golden voice and sings beautifully. So does my brother, and my sister pursues dance as well. Love for the fine arts runs in our family in some way or the other.
I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.
I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in ‘Whiplash’ for realizing Damien Chazelle’s vision so beautifully.
Deep in the culture of Apple is this sense and understanding of design, developing, and making. Form and the material and process – they are beautifully intertwined – completely connected.
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
It’s tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
Every single woman is beautifully unique, and the sexiest thing she can do is own her curves, embrace her differences, and stand tall in exactly who she is.
And I’m supposed to grab her and kiss her and she’s supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully.
People always speak beautifully when they are in love or close to death.
We will come back with even better music and concepts to be able to say goodbye to ‘The Most Beautiful Moment in Life’ beautifully.
I’m not thinking when I’m writing, ‘How’s this going to read?’ Or, ‘What percentage of the audience is going to stay with me?’ The thing itself is what gives me pleasure. Sometimes stuff just falls onto the page so beautifully and happily that it’s deeply satisfying. It’s selfish!
I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.
When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.
While I love walking past those beautifully lit bookstores in my neighborhood, what I mostly buy there are blank notebooks and last-minute presents for children’s birthdays.
I like to entertain at home, to live beautifully but comfortably.
White people loved ‘The Cosby Show,’ especially liberal white people. They loved it because it was a great, funny, well – written, and beautifully performed television show.
I am all for love marriage. I am not the kind of person who can be instructed to fall in love. I am not saying that it cannot happen. Most of my family members met the person and decided to get married. Their marriages have worked beautifully.
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
For me, alcohol has this endless fascination that there’s this substance that can enhance life so beautifully and destroy it so completely.
When you listen to a song, it should make you sit up and wonder, ‘Hey, what is this!’ or give you an inexplicable feeling of joy or relate beautifully to the music in you.
Rian Johnson’s ‘Looper’ is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
Pete Moffat writes crime conspiracy thrillers so beautifully. He goes places other people wouldn’t; he is fearless.
