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Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.
Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.
If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does.
You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.
Freddie Mercury said years later that he got the idea for 'We Will Rock You' from 'Bits and Pieces.' I never knew that.
In 'Top Gear,' everything goes wrong because you have Jeremy Clarkson, so any practical activity ends in a pile of bits.
I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me.
Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?
I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.
It's important that we're properly represented and for viewers to see all the bits and pieces of being a woman of color.
Not everybody would choose to be a firefighter or an ambulance driver. Not everyone wants to see the nasty bits of life.
I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
I enjoy horse riding, tennis, yoga and running - it helps to clear my head, and I can do bits of yoga in between filming.
At least I'm not playing other people for a change. It's a very odd place to be... I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
When you find that person that's your person, you see all the good bits and the bad bits and love them completely anyway.
I'm quite happy to laugh at Argentina's obsession with ham and cheese, but not, you know, delicate bits of their history.
Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.
The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.
For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of a foodie.
My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.
Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.
I have had an amazingly fortunate life. I'm a child from Yorkshire, which is sort of like Cleveland without the pretty bits.
I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.
Everyone has the answer. Everyone has this. You just got to move slowly. You get good little bits of advice and go from there.
Bits are fake conversations comedians have because they are uncomfortable being vulnerable with other human beings in any way.
I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.
When did I become a fast-talking Jew? As time went on, my bits started to become longer, and that became part of the signature.
They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Heighway and he's nothing like him, but I can see why - it's because he's a bit different
I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.
Everything was based on my life and the way I grew up. Some of the bits I'm most proud of in 'Haters Back Off' actually happened.
When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.
I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.
Technology has made it a lot easier to be productive. It's incredibly helpful to be able to get little bits of information quickly.
I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.
I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.
You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.
Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.
The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappearing history, like a ghost town.
Michael Weiss and Todd Eldredge and I all competed against each other. Even though Im older than them, we did cross over a little bit.
Early days, I was a bit racked , particularly when I did Hitler, for CBS . That was hellish. That stayed with me for quite a long time.
Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier").
One-legged squats are amazing for the glutes, so I've actually managed to change the shape of my bum by building up the bits of muscle.
If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.
I'll always have to force myself to see the positive, because I'm wired badly, I'd say. I'm just naturally a bit under, a bit depressed.