It is important not to copy other people’s careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father’s always encouraged me to do that.
If I can go every day of the week, that’s great and I’ll do it. Usually I can’t, so it’s about 4 or 5 times a week that I’ll go to the gym. I just do cardio and make sure I tone. I love spin class and yoga and I work a lot on my legs and my abs and my arms.
I did side planks for my obliques, which are one of my trouble areas. And traditional planks tone your back so you don’t have that little bit of fat hanging over your bra. Ugh!
Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can’t say that I am overly conversant in all of her music. I do have her albums, and years ago, when I first heard her sing, I thought she was extraordinary. The tone of her voice, her phrasing, her raw appearance – these qualities were extremely captivating to me.
Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.
My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
Comedy is all about rhythm and context, and there’s all types of comedies, and it’s about finding that right brand, that consistency in tone.
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
‘Animal Man’ and ‘Swamp Thing’ have so many commonalities in tone and mood.
I am sure having a baby around a working environment changes the tone a little bit.
As goofy as it sounds, I try to sing in the morning. It’s hard both to sing and to maintain a grouchy mood, and it sets a happy tone for everyone – particularly in my case, because I’m tone deaf, and my audience finds my singing a source of great hilarity.
I would like to have a decathlon where all of my throws are really consistent and set the tone. That I’m good all-around, not just a speed and jump guy.
I knew I wanted to do music at eight years of age. I listened to a lot of Motown growing up, and it got to the point where I started mimicking people – Michael Jackson or whoever. People started to notice I could hold a tone. The bug was always there.
I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.
I think one of the things I’ve learned is that the tone of an organization is set from the top down. And if you have men running an organization that want to honor women, that’s a whole different experience than if they don’t.
I’m not against working out. It’s just not effective for weight loss. I like strength training to tone and firm the body so you look tight. But working out just makes you hungrier.
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
Designers have a reputation for setting the tone for what people – and especially women – are supposed to wear. How long their skirts should be, things like that. I have a different philosophy: put something out there with humour; let people see that and come around to it on their own.
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.
It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years.
I am tone deaf.
But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.
Mum prayed to the Lord that when her children were born they wouldn’t be tone deaf. Mum says at two years old I was singing my own little songs, she didn’t know where I’d heard it so I must have made it up. I used to sing along with the radio.
Ballet Beautiful is really good for me, and it doesn’t hurt my back, and it’s a way for me to kind of get my heart moving and tone every part of my body.
It’s important to set a tone and get some momentum.
How do I tone my bingo wings?’ is one of the most commonly asked questions that strikes fear and dread into a personal trainer’s heart.
Say what you will about President Trump’s tone, tactics or tweeting, but even his most strident critics admit he’s at his best when on the offensive.
We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising.
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn’t funny on some level is quite hard.
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms.
I think every character that I play has a certain sort of tone or an energy level to them.
I don’t know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it down for the show.
It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.
Bryan Adams might not be what I want to put on, but he’s a pop singer with a great voice and great guitar tone. Plus, he’s done more for Canada than Rush have, because he works all the time. I envy him for that.
I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don’t always want to do the same tone over and over again.
To me, ‘Crash Love’ is the most stripped-down record that we’ve made since the early Nineties, and I would say that ‘I Hope You Suffer’ is indicative of the overall tone of this record in being the opposite of that.
England was always very special. It was so important because the reason Benny and I started writing was the Beatles. During the Sixties, England was everything. To be number one in England was more important than being number one in America because England set the tone.
The mood of the country is set by its leaders and they are failing us by not setting a compassionate moral tone in a complex time.
Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I’ve set the tone as a mom.
Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security – not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt.
I like bold statements. I’m very nearsighted, and I’m terrible at the whole contacts thing. I figured, ‘Why not get some glasses that are fun, that contrast with my skin tone and brighten things up.’
And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it’s the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.
I don’t have a constituency, and I’m not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don’t want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.
The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They’re the most important cinematic component.
I don’t believe that Donald Trump is a racist, per se. But some of the things that he does, some of the rhetoric that he uses, attracts racists and that sets the tone. And of course, you are judged by the company you keep.
For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you’ll need better diction and bigger vocal production.
How you use your voice is really important, and it’s really driven by context more than anything else, and your tone of voice will immediately begin to impact somebody’s mood and immediately how their brain functions.
I finally feel like I have enough of the tools to be able to really set the tone for myself with the kind of work I wanna do and the kind of process I wanna have.
If you look at me in ‘Ride Along,’ even though I’m playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.
When you are reacting to a good actor, your reactions become better. You get to know what to tone down and how to make yourself believe in those characters.
