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I grew up singing in church. My family owned funeral homes so I would sing for the occasional funeral, as well.
I don't mind doing occasional guest appearances on shows, but I have other things I'd like to do in my life now.
I pretty much eat all day to keep my strength up. I'm primarily a vegetarian who has an occasional side of fish.
Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?
I have a slightly crap blog where I opine on anything that occurs to me and run the occasional silly competition.
In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.
I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.
Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.
I enjoy commentating on the big tournaments for the BBC, the occasional exhibition match, and my business interests.
However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.
From time to time, one imagined Bill Clinton had charisma, but it never really was more than an occasional false glare.
Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.
I get a delivery of a diet food during the week, which doesn't mean that I don't eat the occasional Krispy Kreme doughnut.
A long, hot bath is a real treat. But from a 'green' point of view, that's probably what it should be: an occasional treat.
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.
I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.
I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
I'd done occasional short stories, but I don't like publishing them in literary magazines; they treat you too much like college boys.
Once citadels of free expression and occasional revolutionary ideas, today many American colleges have endorsed political correctness.
I do think... gene technology has got real benefits to offer, which will have maybe an occasional downside, but I suspect not very many.
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek.
Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over.
I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.
Although I certainly do love animals, I have to admit that I also love eating them. (Particularly cows. And chickens. And the occasional lamb).
There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.
Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.
With the exception of an occasional cocktail party with friends, my holiday entertaining mostly centers around smaller get-togethers with family.
I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language.
I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.
Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.
I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.
I like an occasional glass of wine, though I don't drink before a shoot or a show - blotchy skin is not a good idea, however good your make-up artist.
I used to be the occasional social drinker earlier. But now my intake of alcohol has ceased completely. I want to be fighting fit for the boxing ring.
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
I am neither hurt nor disturbed by the occasional backbiting and criticism from my colleagues. By and large, the music industry has been very supportive.
I'm a pretty active person. I love yoga, crossfit, Zumba, and got to get that occasional hike in at Runyon Canyon when I can. I also love mentoring youth.
Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.
I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.
My early memories are full of football talk around the house, of Dad standing on the terraces at Ayresome Park, of the occasional precious new pair of boots.
I wanted the new Green Arrow to somehow sense his long, brutal past. It's like someone who has past lives they can't remember but feels occasional flashes of.
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
Ours was a pork-free household. The rules were arbitrary but strict: No pork in the house, ever. Except for the occasional pepperoni pizza. Or maybe Hawaiian.
When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers.
I'm labeled a comedic actor, which is awesome. But I love getting the occasional dramatic role, too. Some of your best dramatic actors are ultimately comedians.
I won't lie - I picked up the occasional gossip magazine in the past because I thought that maybe 5 to 10 percent of it was true. Now I think it's zero percent.