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Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
In general, American slang is much better than English slang. The entire world picks up American slang.
The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
When you talk about gambling and the euphoria that comes with it, making winning picks is what excites you.
That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.
From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.
I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.
I don't know if six picks in a draft is a record, it's not the kind of thing I would look at, but it's unusual.
When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.
Whoever picks me up, I'm going to try and play my best for, to be the best player on the field at any given time.
What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.
I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.
Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.
The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.
Girls, do yourself a favor, don't ever bring us anywhere to pick anything out - ever, ever. You don't need us there.
When I was 14 or 15, I was dead-set on becoming a rock star - the same as anybody who picks up a guitar at that age.
If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.
If one little girl who looks like me picks up a winter sport because she sees me, that's all anybody could ever ask for.
I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.
One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.
Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?
When Tom Morello picks up the guitar, I'm sure what he sees is totally different from what I do, but I love the way he plays.
I have a P.O. Box that I get about 50 letters a day that my mom picks up, and a lot of weird gifts I like to show on my videos.
Only great players can have two shots for one ball, like Tendulkar does, and a big reason is that he picks the ball very early.
It's a really special skill to be able to pick up a phone the way that a human picks up a phone. It's not as easy as you think.
I was in a unique position to predict the outcome of NBA games. Some of my picks included games I had been assigned to referee.
I'm one of those people that picks up the remote control and just keep hitting constantly, even if I like the show I'm watching.
If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.
When I set picks and rolled to the basket early in my career, either I'd dunk or it'd be an offensive foul where I run the guy over.
One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.
As flashy as draft picks are, the reality of them helping out in Year One anyway is not necessarily the case. That's not the reality.
Volleyball rules are simple. If it is on the floor, pick it up and get it into the air. If it is in the air, keep it off the floor.
If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?
I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.
I'm just a regular girl who likes to go snowboarding and picks her nose like anybody else. I just like to drive into things and take risks.
Sometimes in a restaurant you'll see a lady dressed very nice, she picks up a menu or something... a little fan is always a little bit nice.
Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.
My mother is caring and selfless, and really looks after me. When I'm touring, she still picks me up from the airport, no matter what time it is.
It's hard to change a roster around. You've got to hit your draft picks right, you've gotta hit free agency right, and a team's got to fit together.
As China's retailing champion, Alibaba makes Amazon look like a company that carefully picks its spots. Sure, Amazon does e-tailing. So does Alibaba.
The quarterback gets plenty of protection in the pocket, and he picks up protection out of the pocket; he's got protection down the field on his slides.
You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot - I don't really play with picks.
When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I'm writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that's not what I want to do.
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.
'Borne,' in a weird way, even though it's a totally different universe, picks up where the 'Southern Reach Trilogy' leaves off, because it's post-apocalyptic.
I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
I gotta defend, I gotta protect the rim, I gotta rebound, I gotta set good picks for the guys, finish on offense, and I think that is not going to change much.