For me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that my versions are explorations.
I started singing when I was three - my mother would teach me some versions of 'Thirupugazh.' And I loved being on stage.
We see the worst versions of ourselves - things we did or could have done - in the characters who inspire us.
There's a reason why there's a problem with bodies, and it's because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.
One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.
I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try.
Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.
When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.
If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.
I feel like we want women to be simpler, less complex, so we project a lot of versions of simplicity onto them to fit that.
Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.
Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
I did a film called 'Patriot Games' with Harrison Ford, and we actually shot three different versions of my death. And they settled on the third.
The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.
I love hearing old Bob Marley recordings that he did before he made the versions everybody knows.
I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
The brave men and women stepping up to tell their #MeToo stories have inspired a movement that pushes us to become better versions of ourselves.
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
I feel this way about a lot of movies, that the characters are idealized versions of people. For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.
I've had versions of disability my whole life, first with my hearing and then when I couldn't walk for over a year.
Lambruscos have been misrepresented by industrial versions that have the soda pop flavor they think Americans want.
I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.
I think that there's so many versions of femininity, and in terms of gender as a binary construct, that seems to be being dismantled.
People didn't get to see how other towns interpreted the underground ethos, and so they developed their own unique versions of it.
A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.
I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.
My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing.
I get travel-sized versions of all of my essentials. That way, I can stay on the same routine whether I'm home or on the road.
I really think the human experience is very similar for everyone; we're all doing slightly different versions of the same thing.
I think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories.
I want to develop a championship culture that's filled with high-character people that are dedicated to becoming the best versions of themselves.
It seems to work out that following anything you do, you are pretty much approached with versions of the last thing people saw you in.
Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.
I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter.
It always surprises me when I see the director's versions of films released separately, long after the film's theatrical run.
With a chuckle, Jack mumbled under his breath to Nick. 'It's like watching the preppy, well-bred versions of you and me trash-talking.
I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar.
Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.
Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff that's gone before.
...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.
If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.
I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"
Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.
I like to go to old versions and find out what effect beats and scales have on your body, how they can transport you.
'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
Mickey Mouse did not stay the little squeaky guy in 'Steamboat Willie.' He went on to have many different versions.
Strict laws should be made and implemented against people who leak pirated versions of films online. This is completely anti-national.
You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.
I have my own grown-up versions of temper tantrums, too. I have a hard time not getting hurt when my kids have meltdowns.
I don't have a huge amount of gear, but on the software side, I have a number of plug-in chains that act as abstracted versions of real instruments.
Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!
Hosting various versions of my countdown program has kept me extremely busy, and I loved every minute of it.
I think when you're a fan of a book you do have your own little version of the characters and I hope that some people feel we are the versions they might have imagined.
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