The car is a character in the piece – I’ve never liked the car, I submitted to it’s objectionable popularity.
And that’s another piece of advice I’ll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.
I’m just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it’s television or film or a theatre piece.
Whatever’s going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn’t happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I’m writing ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ and I’m in love with a girl and we break up, that’s going to find its way into the piece.
My approach to housing is to treat it as an essential part of our communities, just like roads, waterlines or any other piece of infrastructure.
Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‘Why?’ ceaselessly.
I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn’t want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.
The biggest piece is my family… From watching films like The Godfather on our dining room wall, to having a great relationship with my sibling. Or going on weekend trips with our cousins to the beach and eating all day… it’s been a crazy childhood; a ‘bohemian one’.
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!
I guess one of the reasons I’m doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it’s later in life.
So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: ’10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He’s a lawyer.’ He didn’t know what was going on. He didn’t even know me. They called him, and he came down and asked me out that day. Now I’m dating their dad!
To me, meeting Buddy Guy was like meeting a piece of history.
Whether it be personal or musical, I just think I’m a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle – so you’re a tool.
I feel like if you told me I would be having a son, I would be like, ‘Yeah, I’m gonna be a parent – I get that.’ But when the doctor was like, ‘You’re gonna have a girl,’ I was like, ‘What? Who am I?’ It’s the craziest piece of information that changes who you are. It’s sweet.
Every time one person gets a piece of information, the likelihood of that information being exposed grows exponentially. It’s no longer two people. It’s two people squared.
I love Sell Out, I think it’s great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It’s got humor, great songs, irony.
Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it – and indeed that’s what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.
My best piece of style advice is to keep your wardrobe small and love everything in it.
As far as investors and customers are concerned, I make it a point to answer each and every piece of mail that comes to me.
When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
‘Partita’ is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.
If I have a thought, I say it. If I keep it down, it’s because I’m waiting for a good moment for me to say my piece. That’s a luxury we have in our society, but parts of the world still don’t have it.
I can’t just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can’t just listen to music as a piece of junk in the background. It drives me insane.
When I’m writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I’m trying not to get in the way.
There’s nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you’re not a true ally to the person who’s in charge of all that.
By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It’s funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.
Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.
Before I was on medication, the mania was so bad that I couldn’t concentrate, so although I’d feel very creative, I could never really finish a piece of work because my mind was moving so fast.
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
A bright, colorful clutch is a great statement piece that never goes out of style.
Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that’s the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
I’ve had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that – from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate – has added to a skill set that I would have been able to use throughout my political career.
Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.
I’m preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that’s coming up in New York City.
It’s easy to fall into a funk and not want to exercise, or to really want that second piece of chocolate cake. I have to say, I fight against those feelings all year. But I try not to let myself sit in a rut like that.
We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.
Roosevelt’s declaration that Americans had ‘nothing to fear but fear itself’ was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
I would like a boyfriend. I’m a very happy person and it is the final, final piece of the puzzle. I’m looking for that shout-it-out-from-the-mountaintops, fall-in-love person.
I don’t believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will.
The history of horror movies goes back a long way… of people trying to convincingly be terrified when looking at a piece of tape on the side of the camera box. I have a whole new respect for it.
There’s not a hip-hop artist that didn’t snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It’s totally impossible.
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.
Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance. It is only such a quantum of market value as exists in a given piece of silver or gold.
I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’
With something like ‘Second Sun’ it was something I’d never really done before. It has no drums and I think that was the first time I’d done this sort of instrumental, bass-less kind of piece.
If you want to learn about America, watch ‘The Wire.’ It’s a profound piece of entertainment.
I’d forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else’s dream.
The history of Real Madrid is impressive, and Cristiano Ronaldo added a piece more to the history of this club, but Real Madrid can’t stop. The player changes club, stops playing, retires and Real Madrid will still be here.
