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Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.
If you go back to 'Louie Louie,' there's the whole element there, where you need to be able to appreciate what 'dumb' is in its profoundness.
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
The only thing I have retained from my upbringing - I did not retain the religious element - is the idea that you do not do things for money.
I can tell you every element of every single look from each collection - one to 30 - without looking at a picture: my label is all done by me.
There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.
No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
It's couture. Everything has to be done by hand. That is most important. That is the crucial element. Without it, that is not couture anymore.
It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.
I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
In every story I've written with Batman, there's an element of justice - you never want to have the story end on a defeatist or a cynical note.
In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be.
There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.
For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.
To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.
I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.
I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.
My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
Music needs a visual element to make it tangible. So, naturally, there's gonna be a synergy between high-level art direction and high-level albums.
The heart in man signifieth the heat or the element of fire, and it is also the heat; for the heat in the whole body hath its original in the heart.
The moment you introduce the element of IT, which is an interdimensional evil entity, the presence of the turtle comes with it, as a counterbalance.
If you look at the whole New Rave movement, the big common ground is definitely the fun element. It's more outward-looking music than introspective.
There's a social element of me that's pretty reserved. High school was when I was starting to come out of my shell because of the theater community.
We just decided to make our dancing as important as our MCing and our production. It's an element in hip-hop that a lot of people are afraid to use.
There is sort of a hobbit-like element to a lot of British people. They don't want to be told something until they have worked it out for themselves.
When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.
I think as an actor you've got to try to preserve some of your mystery so that there's still an element of surprise about where characters come from.
If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
I feel sexy when I'm doing what I love - like when I'm singing or performing or something - that's when I feel the most in control and in my element.
I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually.
Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.
I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.
I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music continues to be made in them. It's just some mojo element.
First thing you have to understand is that freestyling is much different than making hip-hop music: there's another whole element to being a hip-hop MC.
Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
I do honestly believe that, in the 21st century, sport is the most significant cultural element in this imperfect world. It calls for serious attention.
I'm usually the last man on the totem pole. Except for the sound effects and the final sound mix, the score is the last element to be added to a picture.
It's totally crazy! I can't believe all the young kids doing it in competition now. It's pretty unbelievable to have an element variation named after me.
There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!
My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.