My body doesn’t have a lot of curves; I have small breasts, I don’t have hips – so I’m not going to try to make myself something that I’m not. I’m just going to try to be the best version of myself.
Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of ‘America.’
One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history.
One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read ‘Matilda.’ I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class – cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
I just didn’t expect an acoustic version of Rock’n’Roll All Nite.
I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that’s the case, then I guess I’m happy to hear it.
Oh my gosh, I’d give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it’s going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I’ve already forgotten.
‘NME’ and ‘Melody Maker’ were saying I was the next Lou Reed or Van Morrison. So, everyone has their own version as to when the height of my career was.
Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.
Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.
My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.
We look at the Mona Lisa and say we’re going to do our version of the Mona Lisa. We mirror it. But exaptation would say that painting the Mona Lisa would lead to a whole new place… Bugs Bunny.
When I write a tune – and it’s been like this for many years – I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.
We don’t need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn’t be Woody Guthrie… I like Woody Guthrie fine, but I don’t need the 50th generation version of it.
I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
When you’re playing a romantic version of a real person, you’re playing a version of the truth.
I’ve had friends of mine say, like, they’re tired of ‘gayface,’ and I was like, ‘What’s gayface?’ They were like, ‘It’s the gay version of blackface: like, come in and be more effeminate.’
It is an honor to open in New York City and to have the opportunity to serve and share our family’s version of American Chinese food and hospitality. New York City deeply influenced my passion for food and service, and it feels good to be back.
Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.
I suspect that living 24/7 in workout attire is the clothing version of the messy topknot. We all know that your hair is dirty, or too long, or too frizzy, or your roots have grown out, but we are all going to accept it as fabulous because that’s the deal.
I’ve seen some version of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ since I was born.
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton’s WWII career.
When I think of my version of a role model, it’s not about being the perfect Samaritan; it’s just being out there and being honest and happily imperfect.
What you see in ‘Daredevil’ and ‘Jessica Jones’ isn’t the Hell’s Kitchen of today; it’s a version of what it was like.
I can back myself as a longer version player.
I’ve seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.
I don’t stress about the outcome because I know the only thing I have control over is my own hard work. So long as I’m being honest about that and striving to be the best version of myself, I’m happy.
I was about 12 when I first encountered ‘The Moonstone’ – or a Classics Illustrated version of it – digging through an old trunk in my grandfather’s house on a rainy Bengali afternoon.
After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn’t in a position to bet everything on a creative-writing career – neither the writing-workshop academia life nor the freelance-writer version, trying to scrape by on short stories and house-painting gigs.
I’m like the female version of George Clooney in ‘Up in the Air.’ I have to have an eye mask, and Amore Pacific has this cream face mask that’s moisturizing. Moisture is so important in the stuffy, dry air on a plane.
If you… scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.
I’ve always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons.
I don’t want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I’m going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I’m really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don’t have to like it. I’m not looking for you to like it; I’m looking to be myself.
I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
I did a crazy version of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ once, and I played Romeo.
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that’s different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they’re interested.
As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.
I’ve realized why I don’t tell the truth in interviews. It’s because they’re printed months later, and you change so quickly – you have new thoughts, new everything – so people are reading an old version of you.
Los Angeles is a huge, great diverse place, but I had to find the version that worked for me. I am lucky I did because I probably wouldn’t be where I am had I not.
For two consecutive Broadway seasons, I had probably the best juvenile roles there were for an actor. Then I moved to California to recreate my role in the film version of ‘Tribute.’ I started working in film and television after that, and 38 years blew by!
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That’s why there’s no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
I like Anastacia’s version of Love is Alive best.
Sometimes I implant thoughts, sometimes I extract thoughts, but I don’t like to explain it too much. It’s based on science, deduction, and reasoning – it’s a bit like what ‘Sherlock’ does, except that’s a dramatised version. I look at every clue around me.
Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.
I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
The only obligation you have as a film-maker is to tell your version of the truth and to use your film to illuminate reality. Whatever that means.
I’ve always thought of L.A. as the modern version of ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights.’
For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.
The high-tech, globalized capitalism of the 21st century is very different from the postwar version of capitalism that performed so magnificently for the middle classes of the Western world.
Best fight ever in a movie: ‘They Live.’ I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it’s ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.
My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in my earliest memories, in our Wiltshire country kitchen, of gran, and aunts, cooking spicy stewy, casseroley curries, a version of Indian food with a Burmese twist.
I used to let my job define who I was. I like this version of me now, the one that values his job but doesn’t put it at the top of the heap.
Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities, and we would carelessly skip around our elementary school like the powerless version of Captain Planet’s Planeteers.
