I have a generally liberal audience, but they will applaud when I nail a liberal lion.
One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.
Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.
That's the thing about 'Torchwood': It will pull the rug out from under you. It goes along being cute and campy and gay, and then, all of a sudden, it'll nail you.
Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.
Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.
I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.
I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
There were two kinds of women: those who wear nail polish and those who don't. Which do you prefer?
Definitely, I am a firm believer that we are what we eat and proper nutrition improves our skin, nail, hair and energy levels.
My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club
Lets nail it down, lets get it right.
When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.
I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn't need pages of back story or clumsy exposition.
Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.
Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.
I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms... The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.
The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.
You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.
If you had never known physical pain in your life, how could you appreciate the nail scarred hands with which Jesus Christ will meet you?
I think there are a lot of actors who are excellent at cold reads, and they go to an audition, and they read the part and nail it, but then when it comes to the performance, they don't have something.
I know this as a musician: When you nail something, and you get so much attention for it, you want to strip that away and prove, mostly for yourself, that you don't need that.
Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.
It's been hard for me to nail visual language and personal style because I like so many different things.
Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.
I've been doing the Vietnamese nail lady impressions since my mom first took me to get my nails done when I was 12.
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.
AOL-Time Warner didn't want a WCW property on their platforms - being TNT or TBS or anything else - in any way, shape, or form, and that was the death nail.
I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.
The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.
I've realized that I can never not do the nail salon joke, and I will have to talk about Bon Qui Qui for eternity.
We desire and thirst for freedom, democracy and the rule of law just like anyone else. And we are prepared to fight tooth and nail for all of those things.
My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.'
In the exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, they have the Sarajevo painting - I think it's very good to nail down this story of Pol Pot and other people, not all dictators but most of them.
I don't think God cares if I wear nail polish or not. I don't think that's a deal breaker for him.
The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.
You need a screwdriver for screws and a hammer for nails. Anybody that's trying to screw in a nail with a screwdriver... that ain't too smart.
The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you're trying to hit.
You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.
I didn't want 'Hotel Transylvania' to be the nail in the coffin for cartoony animation. Because if the movie failed, I could see people blaming that aspect of it. I was really nervous about that.
I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
I'd describe my look as girly-edgy. I like black nail polish and eyeliner, but I'll wear them with pink shoes.
I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.
There's a picture of me as a little girl, and I'm waiting to go onstage, and I am biting the last bit of nail I have left on my finger.
When I use a polish, I end up changing my nail color 2.5 times a week. The '.5' is when I get them done and notice it's not perfect - I'll fix it myself.
If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'
Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail
When Satan attacks you, command him in the Name of Jesus to bend his neck. On the back of it you'll find there's a nail scarred foot print!
If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.
To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee.
To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.
As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.
Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
For every 100 times you can nail a big move, it's that 101st time where you over-rotate and it can end your career.
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.
I’d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died—finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin.
The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it.
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