The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that.
I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.
Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.
I can't add above 10, I can't draw a stick figure, and I'm tone deaf. So I had to be able to do something. I found that something was picking successful models.
I love to take care of my skin.
Rather than assume that the wealthy are a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot who must be subjugated by the force of the state, set a tone that encourages people of good will to meet in the middle.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
I'm amazed if people are happy in their own skin.
Some of these people make my skin crawl.
I've worn makeup for so long, my skin needs it.
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.
Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.
I can be confident with bare skin and with a full face.
You've got to be happy in your own skin.
I work really hard not to have a kitsch tone to any of my work, particularly radio stuff, which sometimes goes in that direction on certain programs.
I have this weird allergy where metal can't touch my skin.
I love you more than my own skin.
I used to have really bad skin when I was younger.
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.
I'd like less Irish-looking skin.
The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.
I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece.
A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.
I created a tone for network television that they hadn't really been seen before. And I have to admit that was really more of an accident. I was just writing the way I write.
Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.
Music has a way of getting under your skin.
I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving ground for me.
As the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, our president is more than a list of policies. They set the tone of our national character.
When it comes to my skin, I experiment with a lot of home remedies.
I do feel like there's a spirit and a tone you can set that lets people know that they're appreciated for being there. It's a sense of spirit that I think every film should have.
I always take an iPod and iPod speakers so that when you're in the hotel room you can have it on, or when you're at the beach you can put it on quietly. Music can really set the tone for your holiday.
When I was younger, I didn't have any inspiration to like the skin I was in.
Murphy nodded, frowning at the road ahead of her. "The reason treachery is so reveiled," she said in a careful tone of voice, "is because it usually comes from someone you didn't think could possibly do such a thing.
Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.
I am very comfortable in my own skin.
All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.
Nothing's worse than oily skin.
He wants to do you in cause the color of your skin.
Look at my skin - I am not of the white people.
Skin is really important; after all, it's my business.
I've got Democratic skin, but a Republican pocket.
It's important to protect your skin in the sun.
My skin care is really important.
...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.
I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece
I feel like I need to find ways to disrupt the other team and apply that pressure they might not be used to. I think being able to set that tone is something I'm priding myself on.
One of the reasons I write is to be in other people's skin.
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
Certainly in the second film [Maigret's Dead Man], which is quite a more unpleasant and darker story, it's quite different in tone and feel.
You have to have a very thick skin to run a business.
And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
As I got older, I fell in love with Radiohead, and 'OK Computer' is one of my favorite albums of theirs. Sonically, the tone of the guitars on tracks like 'Electioneering' just rips right through me.
Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.".
I've always been taunted about my skin.
I'm really happy in my own skin.
The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.
The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.
I wrote a poem on my leg once, on the skin.
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