Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
I do weight training and follow strict diet. It is very important to look a certain way. I don’t think being extra skinny and thin is desirable, but you have to be fit.
I am a vegetarian and follow a strict and disciplined diet.
I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.
My dad was really controlling and he did want me to skate every single day. I would say he did it in a little bit of a strict way, which probably wasn’t necessary because bottom line I loved skateboarding and that’s all I wanted to do anyway.
Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my professional and private lives.
Sometimes, the Censor Board is observed taking a lenient view with regard to certain explicit contents, which should be restricted, on screen. The board should be strict in curbing such contents.
Writing in a strict form can surprise you.
I’m confident to say that if you want to grow in a profession, consistency is the key… I’m strict about my work goals and training.
I take what I see work. I’m a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.
Mexico has strict gun control. You cannot own a gun in Mexico.
I’m very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that’s it.
I think I’m a disciplined mom versus a strict mom. But also, that job – the disciplining was from birth until about 12, and at 12, I set my kids free, and they learned to become independent human beings.
I’m absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don’t care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that’s what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.
Excitement was there because I had the realisation of having matches that weren’t always TV matches, that weren’t always strict on timelines or storylines and more so focused on the wrestling, different opponents I hadn’t worked before and a lot of one-on-one matches.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
I have a very strict regimen of showing up at my desk at a certain hour with my cup of green tea. It is very quiet. I don’t like having a lot of atmosphere around.
In days to come I would love to doing some more reality shows but the saas-bahu type daily soaps are a strict no for me as I hate serials based on kitchen politics.
I am very strict.
My parents were very strict and had rules for me and, if ever I was playing outside, I always had a set time to come back in.
Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don’t, don’t. There are no other choices.
People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn’t the case. Even though they don’t necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That’s always been their perspective.
I didn’t care for school much – it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the ‘tawse’ was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid – but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the ‘dux,’ as the best pupil was called.
Various books revolutionised what I think about novels and showed me that they’re not strict, formulaic things. ‘Coming Through Slaughter’ by Michael Ondaatje was one of them.
I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs.
Strict laws should be made and implemented against people who leak pirated versions of films online. This is completely anti-national.
My mom could be pretty strict.
We’re more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
My parents, I don’t know about ‘strict,’ but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?
And in real life, I’m actually quite authoritative and strict.
My house was very strange. I didn’t do things other kids did because my parents were very strict – I stayed at home, quiet in my room.
Intelligent analysis of the composer’s intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
There’s two aspects of film crafting that I’m very strict about, and that’s how I move my camera and where I cut the film.
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It’s okay if there are flaws in the process – it makes it more interesting.
I used to be that crazy person that was strict about what I did and didn’t eat. I was so diligent with exercise. And as soon as I stopped thinking about it, I lost weight. I wasn’t stressing about it. The balance and relaxing is what’s really helped me.
My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.
My life was very serious. I didn’t have time for fantasy. I didn’t watch movies or TV or anything else. It was always strict and business. I went to school. I did sports. I went to work. I joined the military.
I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can’t be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it’s so dangerous for kids. So there’s a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.
My parents are really quite strict, so I have to be home at a certain time – even now, at the age of 25.
I don’t want to come in and do something that’s been done before. You know, for me, it’s not that I wouldn’t come in and do a sequel to something, but it’s only if I can bring something new to the table and I’m not following an extremely strict path.
My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business – for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.
I’ve been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I’m being so incredibly strict… not a lot of meat!
I watch my diet and I eat right, but I am not on a strict diet.
I’ve been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.
With Priyadarshan, he is extremely strict but lets me do what I want. You have that kind of freedom as an artiste.
Bluegrass has a very, very strict musical form. Once you start to dilute it, it disappears.
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn’t date; I couldn’t go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren’t interested in explaining.
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus’s strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum’s view of Modernism for decades.
Federal law provides very powerful tools, such as strict mandatory sentences, to go after repeat violent offenders who are illegally in the possession of a gun.
I was a fairly strict vegetarian – I ate eggs and dairy products but nothing that would involve killing an animal to furnish the food on my plate.
My parents were like these hippies almost: they are free-spirited, but they were also strict – which seems like a weird dynamic – but it worked.
With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.
Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him – he didn’t try to be our best friend.
I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped.
