Tennis is a big puzzle. It’s not any more physical or mental; you have to have all the pieces first, and then you have to put all the pieces together. For me, it took me time.
I have a few pieces that I got for my birthdays or that I bought for myself: I acquire things that speak to me and put them on my wall. When I see things I like, I just know.
The American stock market is a profoundly useful and mature idea that our society has created. We as a society have said, ‘Let’s take the best industrial creations of our people and break up ownership into pieces so everyone can own a stake.’
Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‘All right, that about sums it up.’
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
I’m saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time I’m in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.
When there’s a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.
At the beginning of ‘The Hills,’ I couldn’t watch myself because I’m very critical and would pick myself to pieces. But with movies I feel like it’s different because you’re playing a character. So it’s like watching yourself but not watching yourself.
I’ll look at the script and I’ll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole.
When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it’s my job – and my intention – to do both.
For me it’s all about keeping things simple and feeling comfortable in what I am wearing. I prefer investing in classic well-tailored pieces.
I think it is about time that equipped women began to take on some of the ethical questions which a male-dominated culture has produced and dissect and analyze them quite to pieces in a serious fashion. It is time that ‘half the human race’ had something to say about the nature of its existence.
I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you’re picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there’s enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.
I just want pieces of the world.
The kimono, haori, and girdle, and even the long hanging sleeves, have only parallel seams, and these are only tacked or basted, as the garments, when washed, are taken to pieces, and each piece, after being very slightly stiffened, is stretched upon a board to dry.
I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don’t see them as chess pieces.
French women don’t have too many clothes – a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.
If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.
I love sashimi, mainly tuna sashimi. I will buy six pieces or so a day and just snack on them. Sometimes I wrap them up in my mini seaweed sheets.
We’re all in trouble, and we all need to sort of pick up the pieces and start to exercise more and really be careful with the food.
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
