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Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.
I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.
Donald Trump has tapped into a deep vein of racism, nativism, and misogyny.
If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.
When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.
But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.
We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
'Automa' is probably my first sci-fi story. It's not hard sci-fi but more in the 'Terminator 2' vein.
I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.
I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.
We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.
I wanted to write a first contact thing and I vaguely knew I wanted it to be in a beating the beast vein.
I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you know, popcorn movie.
Eventually, when I recorded 'Release Me,' it sort of stamped my style, and I've followed in that vein ever since.
I am not of the vein of actors - and I will not pretend to be one - that takes my character home with me. I don't.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly the opposite.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
I made an electronic record in the vein of Cluster. I was programming synthesizers and drum machines and that sort of thing.
I really like proto-metal, so stuff like Pentagram is really great, and that's more in the vein of Sabbath and stuff like that.
I'm not a futurist, and my taste in science fiction was sort of in the gothic horror vein, not space movies and futuristic stuff.
I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.
I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.
When 'Ally McBeal' started, I went, 'Oh, my God.' It's like what I was doing. 'Bridget Jones' was in the same vein. I identify with all of them.
I'm not a superstar, per se... but I'm a musical creator - a producer in the same vein as what Quincy Jones was, or Pharrell and Timbaland were.
Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein.
I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein during 'Rocky II' and had 60 stitches. If you've seen 'Rocky Balboa,' you'll know how bad they look.
It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro at all. But it is very pop.
That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.
I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool.
People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.
I'm so open to different things. The only thing I'd say is I've set the bar pretty high in terms of good female roles with 'Diary,' and I want to continue in that vein.
In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
I love that vein which uses sci-fi to address society's problems. It is the same when you have useful nightmares - things morph, and you get to confront issues in your dreams.
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.
It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.
The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.
Picture books, while less in word count, are certainly not less important. There are unbelievably skillful authors writing in this vein. Authors like Jane O'Connor and Jon Scieszka.
I wouldn't start writing songs like 'Name' all the time just because I thought that's what people wanted to hear. I'll write a song in the same vein because it's what I want to write.
You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.
All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And so, in that vein, psychological thrillers play a big part.
I don't like to use writing assignments, exercises. I think too often people get comfortable writing in that vein, but you can't go on to write a novel comprised of short writing exercises.