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Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
When he died, he took a big piece of me with him. I'm sure that every time I do something, I'll think about having done it with Hef.
We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.
I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way.
When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.
At the base level, a burger is a piece of meat and a bun with something on it. It's simple but it seems to make a lot of people happy.
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
It's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.
My dad is my dad, but he's not there physically anymore. But she lets me call her 'Dad' - that's the last little piece of Dad I've got.
It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two.
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
My mom was an opera singer. She did all the classical music, and I heard it. I know every opera. I know every classical piece of music.
I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
The biggest thing about Snoop is, you gotta understand, everybody wants a piece of him. They want to touch him. They want to talk to him.
I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.
I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.
I'm interested in teasing out the contemporary issues in what I'm working on, however old the piece might be, whenever I'm working on it.
We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.
Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.
A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.
I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.
In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the city and the daylight.
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.
In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.
Here I am getting $50,000 for personal appearances. Everyone wants a piece of me. But my kids think no one could possibly think Dad is cool.
But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.
Zidane told me that since Messi, he had never seen a left foot like mine. I was a little impressed, because Messi is a piece of a footballer.
It's probably what I'm most interested in as a choreographer: how I can alter and shift and develop the structure of a piece and of the space.
With couture, the great thing is that each piece has its own character, and you have space to explore and continue themes season after season.
I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
What I think is happening in China is that they are recognizing mobile infrastructure is actually a critical piece of national infrastructure.
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
My style is very laid back. I like to be comfortable, but with some kind of piece that pumps it up a little bit - something more high fashion.
Every time I sign a contract, I donate something to charity and buy a piece of jewelry. Whether the movie gets made or not, it's a celebration.
I have a braided metal wire going down the middle of my chest underneath my skin. I saw it on an X-ray of it; it looks like a piece of jewelry.
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
I eat a lot of fruit because if I fill up on strawberries or an apple, then I'll have one small piece of cheesecake rather than two big pieces.
There's something really wonderful about making people laugh, and if you can find the laughs within a dramatic piece, it's also very rewarding.
I have friends who say, 'I don't want to do period now because I have done a period piece and I need to wait for two years' - I don't have that.
Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
The only time I ever appeared in the 'Enquirer' was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child.
I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.
One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.
When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.