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I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
Johnny U was an American original, a piece of work like none other, excepting maybe Paul Bunyan and Horatio Alger.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
My daily breakfast is two poached eggs in the morning with half an avocado, and I get to have half a piece of toast.
Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.
I try and feel good, and the only way to do it is to see myself in the mirror and to know that I'm still a single piece.
'Intelligent Life' is kind of a companion piece to 'Safety Not Guaranteed.' Internally, it's a sci-fi romantic thriller.
It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.
Cooking steak is a joy because it is a terrific piece of meat that has great flavour whether it is grilled or pan-fried.
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
I don't want to be a negative piece of barbed wire sitting up in the booth with all the answers. I think that's a turn-off.
The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, 'Remember, it's all about likeability.'
After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.
The radio - this old piece of technology that's still crackingly current - gives you this communal experience in real time.
When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.
I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece of any healthcare system.
I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.
I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent it feels.
Just as you can identify eras of fashion by glancing at a piece of vintage clothing, logos create and follow trends over time.
The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
I'd love to do something like put a piece of moon rock on Mars and a piece of Mars on the moon, a sort of reverse archaeology.
I hung onto Hollywood by the skin of my teeth, and at first I fought over every piece of bread. Later, I got very small parts.
They screwed up 'Raise the Titanic!' so badly, I stay away from Hollywood. I won't cheat my readers with another piece of crap.
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
I grab coins and tees in my travels, but I usually mark my ball with a coin from Argentina, either a peso or a 10-centavo piece.
I remember my mom bought me one of their shirts for Easter so that I could wear Helmut Lang for Easter. That was my first piece.
Anything looks good if you've got the body of a Victoria's Secret model and the porelessly smooth skin-tone of a piece of glass.
I have a long time association with Prince jewellery and the only piece of jewellery I wore for my wedding was designed by them.
I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.
I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
Being a three piece, maybe it's easier. You only have two other guys, musically, and everything else to contend with and work with.
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.