When I was writing about the Republican primaries, it was as though the Bible was a black box that people reached into to pull out edicts and prejudices and rules and opinions, and I wish they had fact-checked it! Especially Rick Santorum.
I always look for the character that gets into your guts and tells you, ‘You have to play this.’ You have to be brave enough to let everything else go and let the character guide you. When I read a script, I look for that kind of pull.
I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I’m back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
I’m still so grounded and so regimented, too. I’ve developed myself for such a long time – my characteristics and who I am – that if I try to change myself, my origins will pull me back.
When you have multiple patients on life support, you don’t pull the plug on one just to save another.
I suck at surfing. I can’t pull myself up.
I think that it’d be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each other down.
I think the effective thing is, I passed this bill to combat violent extremism in the United States as effective outreach to the Muslim community, so you can pull the religious leaders really on to our team, if you will, to protect us from radicalization from within those communities.
I’m a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it’s a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.
I think one of the most humiliating moments of my life was putting on spandex, personally. It’s always nice when four women pull you into spandex when you’re in jockey shorts. Yeah.
Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I’m not saying it in a moral sense. I’m just saying it in the sense of what is it that’s really going to bring change.
If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, ‘Is that a song?’ I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record.
If I’m doing something I know I can pull off, then that’s not the book I should be writing.
All horses are different – sometimes they have a long neck – so you don’t ride the same way on every horse. It depends on their body, and your body, but the object is to get down low so you’re aerodynamic, so you call pull from the horse through the head. The best jockeys do that really well, and know how much to push.
One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is – the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don’t know.
I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist was like, ‘Don’t do that to your skin! Don’t pull it like that!’ And I’m like, ‘Really?’
I do not care whether you’re a Democrat or you’re a Republican or an independent. We must pull for the people who are wearing the uniform of the armed forces. These people weren’t drafted. They enlisted, because they believe.
If a guy works, and he has children, it’s good, and he doesn’t feel the same guilt about not being there for the children as a woman would. With a woman, there’s that pull: ‘Oh, I should be home,’ when she’s at work, and ‘Oh, I should be at work,’ when she’s at home.
You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record those songs that pull you through the bad days, and keep you believing that the good days are just around the corner.
It’s not just the ‘Grammys’ that I’ve pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
I remember walking home one day from school, and this car pulled up behind me really slow, and it gave me a really weird feeling, and all of a sudden it skimmed me, and the man was half naked and tried to pull me into his car and saying crazy things to me. And it was terrifying.
I’m a real ‘go, go’ person… I’d make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It’s important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what’s inside.
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn’t have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn’t have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.
To have real issues to delve into, research-wise, always makes it a lot more satisfying to me. I can pull from a lot of resources and put them into my work and just have as much information as possible.
The police pull up in back of my car and run my plates – they don’t see you as you are; they see you through a racialized negative gaze. I think the best thing is not to internalize it too much, or it’ll make you crazy because you know it’s going to happen again.
Touring is really about being on edge the whole time – you’re like a racing horse: you’ve just got to be on. You’ve got to pull it together.
I was a litigation lawyer. That’s all very logical. Become a litigation lawyer. Become successful. Have a nice office. But there was some pull inside of me saying, self-publish this book. I followed that intuition and it’s been a great choice for me in my life.
If someone pulls me down, I pull them down, as I don’t feel I should live my life in the way other people want me to. If they have a problem with my films, I can rip off their films, be it comedy or their family dramas, which are low on content and have over-theatrical acting.
Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.
Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
In a moment of stress, funding may go to systemically-important firms, which could pull funding away from firms not making the cut.
We can and must turn this around. If you’re going to kill someone just pull the trigger.
Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I’m serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Many of my favorite survivors in fiction show that it may not be the most muscled, macho or mighty people who pull through. A strong mind and body aren’t always enough. You might also need a resilient heart.
To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.
I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it’s risky.
When I was a boy, I’d hide under the kitchen table and wind string around the chairs. I have a sense now that I am pulling on those threads. The more I pull, the more it comes unraveled.
As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it.
My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they’re my best friends.
When American citizens pull together, there is little we can’t accomplish.
If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they’re first to join.
Joan Cusack is one of my favorite comedic actresses, and every part she plays is so different. She does the wackiest stuff and somehow it works. I like watching her a lot, and I think you can always go further and pull back. That’s something I really have to work on.
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don’t really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I’m going to make it BIG in America!
I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep muddy water and started screaming and sinking. My mom ran up, and I was just standing there a foot away and wouldn’t stick out my hand to pull him up. So I’m probably not the best person to take on a camping trip.
As the number of people who work at Basecamp has grown, I’ve noticed places where we could use more features, like management, structure, and guidelines. I’ve also noticed places where we’ve overengineered ourselves and should pull back.
