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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.
We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that.
We have known for many years that we need vitamin D to facilitate calcium absorption and promote bone mineralization.
Splitting your meals up into smaller, more frequent portions will enable food absorption and utilization of nutrients.
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
I can remember that 2005 Ashes as a kid and being really absorbed in that whole series at 14 years old. It was magical.
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.
If the system should not need parts now, the worker should not produce because you are just absorbing instead of producing.
I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.
We all, to some degree, absorb the mythologies around us, our vision refracted by the prisms of our particular time and place.
You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.
A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.
I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
Cryptochrome harnesses the energy of incoming blue light, but other molecules are probably needed to absorb light of other colors.
Fortunately, dance has been what's interested me all my life. So whether I am faced with incapacities or not, it still absorbs me.
At Liverpool, I studied Steven Gerrard all the time and improved my game that way. Here, I absorb all I can from Iniesta and Messi.
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually.
I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.
I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
All of a sudden, when you're injured, you realise everything revolves around your core. It's crucial for balance and absorbing impact.
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
I'd rather let the song live and, as I get older, I'm less absorbed with the clothing. The older I get, I just wanna write good songs.
One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.
As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.
Sometimes I'm on the pulse of what's happening in Hollywood, but other times, I'm just totally absorbed by what I'm creating on the easel.
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
Climate neutrality means a situation where the world can naturally absorb the emissions that will continue to be produced in our societies.
A lot of technological capital has to be absorbed person-to-person, and that happens more quickly if countries are economically integrated.
The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
You don't have to always be the smartest person in the room, but if you listen and absorb what you are hearing, you will be ahead of the game.
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.
To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.
Rex Ryan is definitely a very confident individual and, when you have someone who believes firmly in what he's speaking, you naturally absorb it.
I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they're so absorbed with what they're doing.