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But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.
There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
I love discovering new young brands and watching these fashion lines take off, like Peter Pilotto, Christopher Kane, and Clover Canyon.
The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.
I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other.
Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.
The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in 'Cinderella,' I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts.
I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.
There's certain lines you just don't cross. You know the one thing that will get a man out of pocket is when you mess with his children.
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.
I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions.
I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.
What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.
I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.
When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life." I am really moved by that.
Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.
A lip brush is really helpful when applying a red lip because it makes the lines smoother. You can see a bumpy line from really far away.
I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.
Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.
You better educate yourself. You don't stand in the front of the line unless you're up there because you know everything that's involved.
Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.
I think that's a really cool thing about my line. There are so many sets, but you can literally mix and match everything with everything.
Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.
Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment.
You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.
Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, and like a forest it's easy to lose your way … to get lost … to forget where you came in.
I still think punk's around. It's been pushed into the mainstream and it gets harder to draw that line between what's pop and what's punk.
If I want to do action, you don't really get to do it. They don't let you, there's too much on the line to let you jump out of a building.
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.
I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.
Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.
Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child molesters.
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.
I've got two girls, and they both make beautiful drawings. One of them really has a gift for the way that she colors around certain lines.
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.
Desire toward God and you will have desires from God and He will meet you on the line of those desires when you reach out in simple faith.
I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.
As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.
And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
Anybody who cares about the functioning of democracy should be concerned about the blurring of lines between public and private interests.
I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.
The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.
The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment.
As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it - along the lines that President Bush proposed.
I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve.
One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.