It’s hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.
To analyze Trump is to discover only bottomless appetite and need, and to carve at him is like carving at an online troll: The only thing to discover is the void.
It’s not an easy thing to be in this league 10 years. Especially with me being a second-round pick, the 46th pick, and an undersized guard, to carve a lane for myself and have a career, for my family to realize that and appreciate that, it meant a lot to me.
I don’t share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region – that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.
In TV, you can carve out a beautiful little niche like ‘Breaking Bad’ did. Like ‘The Wire’ did. Like ‘Homeland’ did.
It doesn’t matter how tall you are. You have to carve out space and hold your ground.
I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn’t really done any introduction courses in sculpture… I’d missed all the technical stuff. I didn’t really know how to weld or forge or carve or model. I’d sort of evaded all those technique classes, so I had no technique.
I feel like when things are really hectic it’s important to carve out time for yourself.
It’s the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it.
I work very hard so that I can be present all the time for what I do and then carve out little pockets of time as I desire for my personal life.
I went straight from high school to ‘Gossip Girl,’ and both were very structured, scheduled environments, so I never had freedom to explore and carve my own path.
It’s very challenging to carve back market share.
I think it’s a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.
As a journalist, I interviewed people, and you begin to feel different rhythms in speech, and you can use those things to help carve out a character.
We eat the same breakfast every day. We are like robots. I always do two eggs over easy with turkey bacon – we enjoy the taste of it more than pork – and avocado. I carve it all up into a bowl so it’s like a slop, and I load it with salt and pepper and Cholula.
There are a lot of Washingtons that have played football. I could just blend in more and carve out my own name quietly.
I’m here to carve out a strong career in the leading-man space.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
My dining room table is just a huge, great thick slab of oak on a beautiful frame. Whenever people come to supper I invite them to carve their name in it.
I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.
I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.
I feel very lucky that I’ve been able to carve out any niche at all in this business. It’s so hard to get into.
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