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artist missionary-zeal mass
We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist. Alan Price
artist would-be wanted
If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist. Alan Moore
artist found difficult
But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult. Alan Bean
artist use actors
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true. Alan Alda
artist thinking legends
Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes. Akon
artist looks roles
The role of the artist is to not look away. Akira Kurosawa
artist looks credit
I never liked the whole thing about pictures with the artists. You look back at an Elvis Presley record, and you don't see any producer credits, because the audience is not supposed to know about the producer credit. Chris Blackwell
artist makeup talking
If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and collaborating and making something that is artwork and is special and is different. Chloe Grace Moretz
artist world power-to-change
The artist has tremendous power to change the world. Chogyam Trungpa
beer two glasses
"What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale." "Then," says I, producing the money, "just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good head on it." Charles Dickens
beer years names
Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung? Charles Stuart Calverley
beer drunk able
And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore. Al Purdy
beer wells know-me
If somebody attacks me with words, I'm always like, Do you know me? Do you know me that well? Let's have a beer and talk about it. Chris Bosh
beer thinking auschwitz
I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer. David Sedaris
beer people kind
I did one of the worst shows for that kind of thing in Northampton, Massachusetts, which is one of the most liberal spots on the planet. There were numerous people who walked out, somebody had thrown a beer, I had people yelling and screaming. David Cross
beer sailing want
Fortunately the boat we rented had a motor in it You will definitely want this feature on your sailboat too, because if you put up the sails, the boat tips way over, and you could spill your beer. Dave Barry
beer four havens
Your guess is as good as mine. Better probably, because you haven't had four beers. Dave Barry
beer letters embrace
The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.' Dave Barry
copper exit funds happen might taste technical
This was a short-term technical move, but might give a taste of what could happen in copper when the funds try to exit the market. Nick Moore
copper minerals recovered returned salt water
Minerals such as magnesium, bromine, iodine, fluorine, zinc and copper would be recovered from the salt water before a slurry is returned to the ocean. Ralph Miller
copper demand means picture prices remain supply
The picture for supply and demand means that copper prices will remain high. Alberto Ramos
copper looking lower possible
We are looking for an alternative to platinum, a nickel-cobalt-copper alloy. We want some of its properties, but at a lower cost, and nickel, cobalt and copper alloys are a possible solution. David Jarvis
copper seems sights
May copper seems to have its sights set on the $3 mark. Dale Doelling
copper healthier
China's copper consumption could be healthier than expected. Gu Yuan
copper
More copper will arrive. Still, it's not going to be a big gain. Andrew Silver
copper happening involving outside pass percent sales type
From our estimation, 60 percent of pass sales that are happening outside of Copper are involving some type of scam. Carlos Garcia
copper funds investment likely metals oil prices signs viewing
Funds are viewing commodities such as oil and metals as investment tools, so these prices are likely to keep rising. Copper prices show no signs of retreating. Cai Luoyi
couple hands people
It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand. Charles Dickens
couple men hands
I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat. Charles Dickens
couple hands want
I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better. Charles Stross
couple may terrible
I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others. Charles Stross
couple years my-boyfriend
Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it. Alanis Morissette
couple majority adaptation
I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless. Alan Moore
couple guitar burritos
I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos. Alan Arkin
couple moving done
There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on. Alan Ball
couple believe next
I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons. Al Michaels
eye home dark
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world. Charles Dickens
eye numbers envy
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance. Charles Caleb Colton
eye sight sore-eyes
the sight of me is good for sore eyes Charles Dickens
eye men thinking
I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music. Charles Dickens
eye hands evil
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. Charles Dickens
eye hypocrisy shining
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. Charles Dickens
eye mad black
An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror. Charles Dickens
eye light skins
With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing. Charles Dickens
eye thoughtful great-expectations
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. Charles Dickens
glasses light broken
They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light. Charles Dickens
glasses society village
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass. Charles Spurgeon
glasses bottles green
American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore. Alan Moore
glasses sides life-is
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching. Alan Bennett
glasses faces chaos
Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face. David Sedaris
glasses play giving
I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film." Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
glasses half-empty firsts
At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place. Catherine Tate
glasses water looks
I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them. Mark Cuban
glasses safety inexperience
I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass. Charles Lindbergh
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Charles Dickens
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason Charles Dickens
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine. Charles Caleb Colton
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel. Charles Dickens
good-man energy attention
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. Charles Simmons
good-day writing emotional
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that. Alan Moore
goodbye farewell heart
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
good-movie complicated enjoyable
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. Akira Kurosawa
good looking
We want them all to go on, and realistically they all have a shot. They all want to be state-placers and they're all looking to be pretty tough. I just want them all to have a good time. Brian Nicola
pieces film periods
Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces. Cary Elwes
pieces
We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there, Charlotte Moore
pieces paper littles
I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it. Eartha Kitt
pieces advantage existence
Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence. David Hume
pieces finest sells
I don't like to sell my finest pieces. Beatrice Wood
pieces silent refuse
to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent. Audre Lorde
pieces sometimes used
Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard. Derek Bailey
pieces reinterpretation materials
Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation. Denzel Washington
pieces lasts tools
Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool. Elizabeth Olsen
queens humanity might
Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity. Alan Bennett
queens kings simple
Meditation practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being on the spot, your life can become workable and even wonderful. You realize that you are capable of sitting like a king or queen on a throne. The regalness of that situation shows you the... dignity that comes from being still and simple. Chogyam Trungpa
queens creativity school
You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity. Chick Corea
queens kids mirrors
Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens. David Krumholtz
queens sorry real
Black Stache had no love for the Queen, no love for women of any sort, except for his ma. He had a real soft spot for his ma, and was truly sorry for the time he’d marooned her. Dave Barry
queens fall acting
Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your pushed her off a cliff. Dave Barry
queens thinking names
I think we have reached a level in society - with Helen Mirren playing The Queen - when we're not surprised any more. We don't mention names. Yes, it's obvious by inference. But we don't mention names and the film is not up to point fingers at Royalty. David Suchet
queens moving winning
Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen. Catherynne M. Valente
queens self class
Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek the grimy queen of dread machines, if you your errant shadow miss.' Now that's quite good! As a Prophetic Utterance, Third Class (Vague Hints and Mysterious Signs), you couldn't ask for better. It's downright plain-spoken! Catherynne M. Valente
shows show-business
I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow. Dick Cavett
shows
I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time. Ed Sullivan
shows smartest
Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show. Monica Raymund
shows
We don't have any documentation that shows ownership, Stephen Urban
shows
I never set out to do a sketch show. Demetri Martin
shows
I like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character. Tracie Thoms
shows prepared bits
The show is probably 60 percent improvising and 40 percent not. So there's quite a bit of it that we do have prepared and that part of it, you have memorized and you've rehearsed and you're prepared, just like any show. Brian Henson
shows whenever
Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me. Callie Khouri
shows strangest-secret
What's going on in the inside shows on the outside. Earl Nightingale
sort thinks turns viewer
You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite. Nigel Kneale
sort trend
We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit. Paul Souza
sort
What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality. Candace Parker
sort start stuff teammate whether
We're just used to it. Every race, there's always some stuff that happens, whether it's a teammate or not. You sort of have to refocus at the start and go. Julia Mancuso
sort
I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.' Sarah Snook
sort
What we didn't want was it to be sort of a one-hit wonder. Lyle Bauer
sort tend worrying
I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens. Kiesza
sort
She's always been a very intrepid sort of girl. Becky Sarro
sort tends
When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad. Bruce Eric Kaplan
tracy
I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act. Andy Kindler
tracy
It just made me and Tracy that much more comfortable at home. Marcus Giles
works
The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality. Hans-Ulrich Obrist
workshop
We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it. Cy Coleman
works
Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement. Ira Glass
works
My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts. Walead Beshty
works
Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating. Val McDermid
works
My latest works are these things with light bulbs. Jim Hodges
works
If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around. Frank Thomas
works
I think it's the only way it works politically, Kevin Hassett
works
As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't. Christopher Walken
york
My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special. Michael Musto
york
Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute. Ron Wood
york
I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor. Erik Estrada
york
When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection. Carine Roitfeld
york
I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted. Frederick Pollock
york
I am the oldest young designer in New York City. Michael Kors
york
Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care. Ira Glass
york
I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian. Samira Wiley
york
When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here. Ringo Starr