Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.
‘The Producers’ is my favorite movie, and my favorite performances of all time are Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, and I feel like I strive to be a combination of those two guys.
In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
I stopped playing online poker due to a combination of the UIGEA legislation and realizing that I could make more money with less effort by betting sports.
You’re not a combination of all your labels. You just are.
Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
The USRTA recognizes that the United States is the largest importer of goods even as it maintains, on average, the lowest combination of tariffs and nontariff barriers of any of its major trading partners.
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.
It’s more like individually how lucky and talented you are, that combination determines how successful you will be.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms – painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
I believe in a combination of exercises like yoga and Crossfit.
The success combination in business is: Do what you do better… and: do more of what you do.
I don’t think you can find someone who has my combination of look, talking ability, presence. I don’t think you can find an exact copy to fill my shoes.
People ask, ‘Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?’ I think it’s a combination of both.
I don’t really understand why everybody doesn’t want to direct. It’s an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every possible level, emotional and practical and technical. It calls upon such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing.
Though we tend to reach for the bacon or sausage, fish and eggs are a classic breakfast combination in many places around the world, and for good reason: They’re great together.
An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.
I don’t really drink sodas, but when I have popcorn or pizza I need a little. It’s the perfect combination.
The perfect life is the combination of great moments and bad ones, and under that point of view, my life is fantastic, because I’ve certainly hit more than one bump.
I always say that to compose is to think. Playing is good, it’s useful, but it’s how your intellect puts the ideas together that will bring hands to write or to play. So, it’s really a combination of many things; hearing sounds, hearing layers of counterpoints, of chords.
European operetta and German singspiel provided the American musical its combination of spoken dialogue and song; the inclusion of dance traced a lineage to French baroque opera. But what a difference!
I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way – though it’s quite strenuous on the fingertips.
I always like to keep one hand in the tepee and the other hand in the synagogue. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a combination of the two? You could go to synagogue, and it would be really hot in there.
Hillary is a combination of Barack Obama 3.0 and Bernie Sanders 2.0. This is not change. This will not yield strong growth, lift jobs and wages, and make America more globally competitive.
I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn’t work as well as it does.
I don’t chase the perfect figure. I’d rather focus on staying and eating healthy. A combination of running, swimming, yoga and circuit training works brilliantly for my body.
Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It’s a weird combination of elements.
I really don’t know the secret to it, but I’d like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
Like all of my previous work – which I also hope is a bit hard to categorise – ‘The Oopsatoreum’ is an illustrated book, so a combination of words and pictures that tell a kind of story.
Usually, my sets are a combination of what I love, what everyone loves; some classics, some new stuff and a couple of exclusives here and there.
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
Part of fashion is newness. It’s got to be a new combination of elements that’s shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn’t have any emotion.
Things have got to add up to 100 points. The script is part of it, the character is part of it, the people I’m working with is the third part of it – and any combination of the three has got to add up to 100 points.
That’s a dangerous combination, serious and rock ‘n’ roll. But yeah, I’m pretty serious. I’ve been at this a long time, and it takes a certain amount of seriousness.
I want to do every kind of role with a reasonable amount of panache. I want to be a fair combination of style and substance.
The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
I think I had struck on a combination of imagery and politics that worked.
My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assumptions, based on his ability to control my behavior through a combination of slavish devotion and incessant howling.
Few big men have possessed the rare combination of power, speed and agility of Shaq.
