It’s cool to think about nursing, because a lot of people decide to go into it later in their lives. I could slip into school to be an LPN or an RN as a middle-aged man, and it wouldn’t be unusual.
I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It’s very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy – a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they’re required to keep an agreement with you only if you’re successful or they need you.
Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.
In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that’s not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.
It’s very rare and unusual to see a female comic perform pregnant.
As a military pilot and a test pilot, handling unusual situations and aircraft malfunctions was part of the business.
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don’t have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.
Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.
It wasn’t unusual for an Allman Brothers record to cost $300,000.
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
The fact ‘Twin Peaks’ had a life at all took most of us in the cast by surprise. We thought it would be too unusual for network television. The original intention was that it would be a two-hour movie. If the network didn’t want to pick it up as a series, it could just show that. But ABC took a chance.
Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it’s not highly unusual.
Anything new is a sort of adventure – as a child, I think I was quite bad at tackling new experiences, like unusual foods, and I hated new clothes or having my hair cut.
Anyone who has any kind of success in Hollywood wants to make more expensive movies and spend more money, be bigger. I think it’s unusual to have success and want to stay small.
Zimbabwe is an unusual case study in African colonialism in that it was invaded by a private company under Royal Charter.
When I’ve had enough of words, I go out into the city for a long walk; sometimes I’ll go out walking for several miles. And I’ll just take photographs and hope for something striking or unusual to happen that I can organize into a picture frame.
Years go by. I go here, I go there, I have all sorts of adventures, and then I look back and say, ‘Wow that’s kind of an unusual way to live your life.’
It’s funny to be in rooms where you were originally referred to as ‘The Shakespeare Guy’ and to suddenly be in the position where you’re ‘The Blockbuster Guy.’ That’s a pretty unusual turnabout, I must say.
I never thought it was unusual to write, and I’ve been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.
Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.
I only get unusual ailments.
Florida is a most unusual place. It can feel at once stifling and like anything is possible there.
I don’t think it’s unusual to spend time with your castmate.
I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don’t do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I’m a little bit lazy. I don’t get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.
If I scroll down my Instagram replies, the tenth one down features a racist emoji – which is not unusual. So I follow the protocol, which is to block the user and report the message under the category of ‘hate speech and symbols.’ Then I am told that an emoji with a monkey and a banana is not considered racist.
When I’m working, I look forward to weekends. Film sets give your time a structure; otherwise, one day can run into another. I often find myself in unusual locations, so Friday nights I might head out with some of the cast and crew to explore the town.
When I heard Bjork’s debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.
I don’t think I’m unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.
I think it would be difficult to argue that I’m a net-negative for womankind. I’ve tried pretty hard to bring in unusual female voices and perspectives. Not just young women and not just white women, either. I don’t know that I’m the best target for improvement. I don’t know that I’m the problem.
I remember being taken to visit houses by my father, who then tested my powers of observation by expecting me to describe the things I had seen… Unusual furniture always seemed easier to remember than other things.
I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.
A steak is a steak, so I tried to experiment with different side dishes, such as truffle croquettes, and unusual condiments, but I learned that people don’t want you to change the steakhouse.
To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.
One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, carrying visitors on a one and one-half hour trip past Johnson’s birthplace, the family cemetery and ranch house, and through the ranch.
We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; ‘cruel and unusual’ punishments are forbidden.
The most unusual thing about Clinton as a pol is that he listens. Listens and remembers. If he does dance with them that brung him, not them that gave him big money, we will have a populist on our hands.
Because Ernest Lawrence’s award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
In general, I’m probably seen as an unusual director.
We struck an unusual deal. I’ll get to leave CNN with my catalog and documentaries. We were able to create a brand at CNN – ‘Black in America’ – that I now own. I can take that brand and extend it in any way I want.
Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through – the last fifty maybe just going back and forth on a single line or word selection.
My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He’s great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.
After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.
I am unusual for a Frenchman – I have absolutely nothing against the United States.
Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.
One of my first episodic jobs was on ‘Twin Peaks,’ if you can imagine that – one of the most unusual series ever.
The last thing you want to do, unless it’s a very unusual situation, is to invest money.
When I’m on tour, telly-watching happens at unusual times for me. After a hotel breakfast, I generally catch up on ‘Homes Under Hammer’ and ‘This Morning’, while replying to emails and dozing slightly. A full belly will do that to a woman.
Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!
I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part.
During the Hollywood studio system, they looked for people who were unusual. The stars had peculiarities.
Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console.
For an actor to have a role that they’re recognized and remembered for over the years, it’s unusual. It’s very lucky if it happens once – and it’s luck that it’s happened to me a couple of times.
