A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.
As a new ball bowler, it’s my job to stick to the basics.
I make funny videos. I hate saying I’m a comedian because then people stick their finger in your face and demand you tell a joke. But the other thing people call me is ‘a YouTube sensation,’ which is even worse.
This might be really weird, but The Body Shop has a tea tree oil stick that you can put on zits, and it makes your zits go away.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don’t have that kind of time, so I’d much rather stick to playing guitar.
I don’t ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets – way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.
Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.
Pops always taught us that family is the strongest unit in the world. If you stick with your family, nobody can break you, nobody can harm you. You’ll always have your family.
I’m vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I’m at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow’s in Chard. I always get organic – I like happy hens.
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Why does the lizard stick his tongue out? The lizard sticks its tongue out because that’s the way its listening and looking and tasting its environment. It’s its means of appreciating what’s in front of it.
I used to walk around with a stick. My dad used to call me Moses. It’s on a home video. He said, ‘That kid would rather lead no one than follow anyone.’ I had dogs following me in the neighborhood. I had neighborhood kids coming over.
I stick with a ’60s vintage aesthetic of letterman’s jackets, plain T-shirts, and good jeans.
When the others grew tired and went home and there was no one else to play with I used to play my own Test matches on the porch of our house, using a broom handle or a stick as the bat and a marble as the ball. I would arrange the pot plants to represent fielders and try to find the gaps as I played my shots.
I will never wear a wig if I don’t have to, but I will say that, honestly, it’s not the greatest! They’re hot and stick to your head.
I want to stick with movies, but I also want to stick with YouTube. I’m never going to give up YouTube. I’m never going to stop making videos for the people who continue to watch them. That’s my home base. That’s what I love; that’s what I know.
I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures. It’s so awkward. It looks so cheesy.
You just have to stick to it beyond all reason and all sanity; you just keep at it. You have to believe that you’ve got to be in the theater.
A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.
I’m 43 now. I’ve reached the point where I really can’t care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I’m an actress. I’m totally insecure, but I’m trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn’t do.
All I did as a child was pretend to be James Bond or Marlon Brando. When I was about four, I put on my dad’s work boots and went up and down the street with his walking stick pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.
‘Star Trek’ never grabbed me. Every time I hear about Klingons, I think of those little lint balls that stick to your clothes in the dryer.
If you create a good story that has a lot of story value… I think audiences like that. It’s why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
If you don’t know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
I don’t see a lot of films. I’m quite choosy, but there’s certain films that stick out.
When you’re in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I’m still going to say that it’s a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
Success comes with a baggage. When you are successful, there is a lot of temptation to not foray outside of your boundaries and just stick to what is successful. It is very tempting because it is very easy to do.
What I’ve become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you’d rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself – if I’m not going be able to write, I’m not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.
I continue to dream of a day when my skullcap will not stick out so much.
Something magical happened when I turned 25 – I looked in the mirror and was like, ‘You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.’ Like I didn’t have a little stick figure anymore.
If I get to spoil myself, I’m going to DQ. I always had it growing up, so I stick to it.
My philosophy is that the digital revolution will make mankind happier and more productive, and that won’t change over the next 300 years. If you don’t stick to that original philosophy, even perfect control of a bunch of companies isn’t going to do you any good.
You can’t just come up with an idea for a game and stick the drama on top. It all has to be one driving thrust.
One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can’t.
I just work hard at everything I do. If there’s something I need to learn, I stick to it, I learn it and put everything I have toward it.
Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940’s, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
I never like to stick to one media; whether it’s a TV series or feature film, I enjoy it and I like changing constantly.
I feel like, with any show, the creator should stick to it the first few years and get it off the ground.
We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.
Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn’t over, because I’d love to keep making weird plays. I can’t wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play ‘sit-com-y’ and tell me to stick to writing television.
When you’re a corporation, you’re going to stick with what works. That’s why every McDonald’s is the same.
Crashes are the worst thing because your wounds stick to you, so you are sweating into your road rash all day and when you try to sleep your wounds are sticking to the bed sheets. It is part of the job and we know the risks.
For the novice runner, I’d say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.
There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.
I’ve been in the business 60 years, and it’s taken me this long to play a scene with a monkey. That’s what happens if you stick around.
Pretty much I love all types of fish; I pretty much stick with that. I love vegetables. I don’t eat too much carbs, but I love salads, though. I’ll usually have a salad, except for breakfast.
When you’re pregnant you just want to be comfortable – but I wear more or less the same as I do when I’m not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when the belly starts to really stick out, I’ll want the floaty dresses!
Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.
The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
