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My husband and I have very similar backgrounds even though we're years apart. So there are a lot of things that we basically share.
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.
When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.
You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they all look alike to me.
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.
I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'
In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.
I don't know much about Mauresmo apart from the fact she played great tennis. Is she a good technician? I don't know those parameters.
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.
Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
I dislike conflict, so I do try and steer clear of arguments. Apart from with my coach. Who I literally have an argument with every day.
I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.
I wanna be bad sometimes - I wanna rip everything apart, -but it comes on less and less. Doing all this music stuff is very good for it.
I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.
I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.
Queen Latifah was writing poetry. Maybe Latifah's 'Ladies First' and Angelou's 'Phenomenal Woman' are the same thing, a generation apart.
There's something really interesting about how human beings just want to see animals tear each other apart, maybe because we can't do it.
We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State.
Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.
Men can't do much to change; we have to wear suits, although I never wear a tie, apart from in Asia sometimes. So I decided to grow my hair.
I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.
Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it's legitimised. It's also tied to sexism, because those two are never far apart.
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.
The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.
Football really felt like a private thing when I was in my teens because it wasn't on television, for a start, apart from 'Match of the Day.'
I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.
You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.
Since in the end, as an actor, I cannot do much apart from giving my best on camera, I won't let myself be affected by the business of cinema.
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.
But what sets Europe apart is we insist on a social model that consists of solidarity, equal opportunity and a certain amount of redistribution.
When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again.
It takes a big man and a big woman to actually say, like, 'Okay, I'm in love with you, but I can't keep forcing it - it's only pushing us apart'.
In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.
I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.
Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god.