in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.
I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.
The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it, across party lines.
As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.
I knew every one of my father's lines in 'Glory' - I broke the VHS tape - but I hid my love of acting to make it as my own man.
I see wrinkles and lines, and wear glasses to read, which I hate. But I am in a better place in my body than I used to be.
I'm a little disappointed in what's happened. I'm beginning to lose faith in Obama. This Syria thing is ridiculous. He should not be drawing red lines.
A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.
The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in 'Cinderella,' I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts.
Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.
With my characters, I prefer to not say too much, and in fact, I tend to cut down some of the lines in most scripts I get.
As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.
Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).
Gianni Agnelli was a sharp mind, and most of his interviews carried meanings between the lines that only now are fully readable.
I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.
I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.
I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the director, the other actors. It's definitely a responsibility.
The storm is ended! The impartial sunLaughs down upon the battle lost and won,And crowns the triumph of the cloudy hostIn rolling lines retreating to the coast.
As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.
Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.
As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.
I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning
The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines.
She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside.
I start to think, and then I sink
Into the paper like I was ink
When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines
I escape when I finish the rhyme.
I used to make polyhedra with my father. There were no clear lines between games and toys for children and his professional work.
Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.
An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose, the dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
A lot of the time, as an actor, you don't have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.
After I beat Rose and won the belt, I heard too many comments along the lines of 'Oh, that was luck.' You think that doesn't get to you?
As a child I was told if I was ever given ruled paper I should write across the lines. And that's what I've done, traveling the roads with the least traffic.
Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.
What do the contours of your body mean, laid out like the lines on a hand, so that I no longer see them except as fate?
Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines
Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")
An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film.
I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.
It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen.
Understanding and respecting your roots is critical not only to winning the tech talent wars but leaving a legacy that transcends bottom lines.
I am sure in some years from now you will see new posters with just white space and four lines in Garamond.
In winter, when the dismal rain
Comes down in slanting lines,
And Wind, that grand old harper, smote
His thunder-harp of pines.
Hema ji is a dedicated artist and a perfectionist who continues to rehearse on her lines till she gets them right.
Sometimes, I knew generally what I was going to do, but I've never written anything down. Call it a sixth sense: the lines just come.
Prabhu Deva has written the opening lines for a couple of songs in 'Vedi.' He's a great lyricist too and not many people know that.
I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.
I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.
It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.
I just learn my lines, go on set. Do my preparation, whatever that is. Have a cup of coffee. Say hello to everyone. And be friendly. "Action" - and then do it.
That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
We were looking at ourselves as a store rather than a brand. When you do that, you draw thick, heavy lines around your freedom.
When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines.
I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.
Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.
If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.
My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.
Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.
War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.
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