By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they’d look at how tall I was and say, ‘Well, you’re taller than the lead actor, so there’s no way we can cast you.’
I don’t pay attention to which foot I’m developing. I just train normally and use both feet. I’d say I’m right-footed.
We don’t really want to be the ‘Late Night’ of the Internet. We want to have one foot in the mainstream, one foot in the underground.
After sessions, I keep working and practising with the left foot. Hopefully one day, it’ll just be fluent.
For me, it’s easier to play with my right foot. It’s simple. If I go right, I see Diego and have different solutions: I go alone or pass to Diego, or the midfield can join in. If I go the other way, the cross with my left foot is not good.
I can’t work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.
He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
My dad was born in Desertmartin at the foot of Slieve Gallion.
Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he’s treated.
The best thing about ‘Strictly’ is it doesn’t matter what level you start at, if you’ve never put a foot in front of the other in your life.
I find it’s better to focus on what’s in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
If you take your foot off the gas, there’s always someone who wants your spot.
In December 2011, a wild gray wolf set foot in California, the first sighting in almost a century. He’d wandered in from Oregon, looking for a mate.
All of a sudden, I don’t have a leg. I’m in a wheelchair. I have half a foot; I can’t even walk to the bathroom. I’m in a bed, I can’t move, and I felt like those four walls were my prison.
At Burning Man, the audience is the show: the boundaries between stage and public overlap and melt. Every form of self-expression, every fantasy… everything has a place. It’s kind of a utopia, and everyone who sets foot in it is so impressed that they do their best to respect it and keep it alive.
I struggled to keep one foot in music and one in academia. I had worked on my Ph.D. for three years full time before I realized Bad Religion could be a legitimate career.
As footballers, we do get lazy sometimes and take the ball with our preferred foot to control it, but that split second of controlling it with your left foot and playing with your right can make all the difference in creating a chance or scoring a goal.
I’m careful with my heart. I don’t take crap from no one these days. I put my foot down. Being a woman, you deserve heaven and earth.
It’s another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.
My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.
You have to do your job and put your best foot forward and focus on what you have to do to win.
When I was about 2 years old, I found a bee that had been stepped on on the foot path, and so I picked it up to rescue it, and it stung me on the hand. From that day forward, I’ve been terrified of bees.
I’d prefer to do the safari on foot, like they did in the old days and just take the camp with you, not driving around in 4WDs.
For me, at least, Vietnam was partly love. With each step, each light-year of a second, a foot soldier is always almost dead, or so it feels, and in such circumstances, you can’t help but love.
My first professional gig was on a show called ‘Nikita,’ and I played Al Qaeda No. 2. At that time I had to take those roles because I just wanted to get my foot in the door.
Satellite datasets like WorldView can see objects as small as 1.5 feet in diameter. In 2014, WorldView-3 will be able to see objects a small as a foot.
I have a tattoo on my foot that says ‘it’s a whale’ in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most children’s teddy bear. I took it with me everywhere. I slept with it. I couldn’t live without my whale.
My mum knew if I got out of Kolkata, I wouldn’t return. So she made me sit for the entrance of St Xavier’s. But once I set foot in Delhi, there was no returning.
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
I’m six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It’s reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I’ll become a madman.
I was one of those people at one point who was scared to put my foot down and show where the boundaries were. For me, it’s really important to stand your ground and know exactly what you are, where you wanna be, and what you’re doing, or else people are gonna try you.
When I was a kid, while touring East Berlin – back when there was an East Berlin – I got my left foot stuck in an escalator in Alexanderplatz. A few hours later, thanks to blowtorches and chainsaws and East German soldiers and the U.S. Embassy, my foot was released, and I along with it.
I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.
I don’t live like liberals in a 5,000 square foot mansion.
At 11 years old, in 1968, my job was to deliver food on foot, so I spent my day walking around the city. I had an active imagination, jacked up by movies. I passed the time making up stories and serializing them.
I love the notion of a dude sitting there with an untuned guitar tapping his foot and just singing his passion out; that’s what got me into music in the first place.
In the Pakistani entertainment industry it’s very, very difficult to get your foot in the door if you don’t have a network in Karachi or Lahore or in the film circle.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.
When it comes to period stuff, I think it’s great to see South-Asian actors get their foot in the door there, because it’s nice to tell period stories and tell it in a way that reflects the world now.
This is the one sport you don’t want to be one foot in one foot out.
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story.
I always thought ‘Stump’ was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It’s not the most exotic rock-star name.
The mountains seem to have conquered us long before we set foot on them, and they will remain long after our brief existence. This indomitable force of the mountains gives us humans a blank canvas on which to paint the drive of discovery and, in the process, test the limits of human performance.
When people are on ‘The Bachelor’ it gives them the opportunity to put their best foot forward, especially when you’re around the ‘Bachelor’ or the ‘Bachelorette;’ that one person who you’re vying for attention with.
A teenage foot that never tapped to ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ in the ’50s probably belonged to a hopeless grind.
I completely put all my time and effort into my kids and once I stepped foot in the ring, that’s who I fight for. And that’s who I work extra hard for when I’m tired, to feed my family and to make sure that they are going to be alright after boxing.
I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, ‘Cabaret.’
And I came close to losing a part of my foot on two occasions. I hope I’m consistently lucky and that the next time I develop a blister or step on something sharp, that I don’t go as far as I did on those two times.
Sometimes, I do think about direction but I haven’t much about it. I don’t know if I want to put my foot in the other boat.
I went through the foot injuries, as well as other things, that have kept me grounded.
I’m a pure boxer. I have lightning speed that hurts guys. But I love to box. I love to be on my back foot. I love to work my jab and combinations.
What’s just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement – while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?
If you get your foot in the door doing one kind of part, that’s the kind of role they call you for. I can’t say I resent it – then I would resent my whole career.
I am 6 foot 2 inches, and one of the benefits of that is having long legs.
