Pieces Quotes - Page 69

One colleague who's been in the industry longer than I had been gave me a valuable piece of advice. "Stay close to the facts and observe things fully and report. Then you can be a mediocre journalist." I held onto his words when I worked and I've been following that advice for 16 years.

I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.

A lot of action characters are a little bit too serious as well. They take themselves a bit too seriously, which I don't find particularly interesting, whereas I like the fact that there was at least some humor in this because really it's a piece of entertainment.

There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either they don't turn it in or they turn it in and it's rotten; it's amazing. Somebody who's even maybe not all that terrific but who is dependable, who will turn in a publishable piece more or less on time, can really do very well.

I'm constantly revising and updating a piece until it's finally recorded. Once it's recorded, then it's over.

Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.

I always like to borrow bits and pieces of things. There's a line between jumping on something that's happening and incorporating bits and pieces of it into my work.

The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.

The second you go back to eating right, you're going to put that weight on. You eat one piece of bread and you are screwed, lady!

America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.

In terms of collaboration, working on a new piece is always thrilling, as I'm sure most people would say, because the playwright is in the room and the piece itself evolves in response to what is happening in the room.

A piece of a Churchyard fits everybody.

Not only did Judas sell Jesus for thirty pieces of silver; he also sold himself.

It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.

When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

If a piece requires some specific inflection, I'll record it. I take a lot of notes, and later categorize them, combining them alongside existing ideas, and eventually put a piece together.

I've always been a lover of classical music ever since I was an early teenager I suppose. I remember the very first piece of classical music that grabbed me was I bought an LP of Daniel Barenboim performing Mozart's piano concertos and I would have been about 14 or 15 at the time and I remember I played it over and over again.

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.

Your body is the piece of the Universe youve been given.

May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

I think a great piece of outerwear can really make you stand out.

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.