Pieces Quotes
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The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in.
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I don't just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and all of every part of you and your day.
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All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.
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Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.
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What I like about 'Game of Thrones' is that there's such a wide range. We have everything from very small, just solo instrument pieces, just the solo violin or solo cello, and then we go all the way to these bigger action moments.
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I missed the whole thing X-files series. And I know it went for nine seasons, and I think I saw bits and pieces of it in maybe season seven or eight or something, and then was very busy doing whatever else, stand-up comedy and stuff throughout the world. Now I'm watching the show right from the beginning.
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Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.
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It’s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. I’ve stopped in Macy’s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.
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I am in a thousand pieces. Painting somehow makes me whole.
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Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?
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Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.
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I followed Shoji Hamada, because I guess Alix MacKenzie and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out on paper and then simply executing them. And with Hamada there was a much more direct sense that the piece had happened in the process of making on the wheel, and that was what we wanted to do with our work. We weren't always able to do it, though.
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This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.
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The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.
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When James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' turned out to be largely bunk, critics everywhere secretly rejoiced. They knew it, they said.
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People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.
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I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the puzzle. Then I get to put the puzzle together!
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Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea... Piecing these things together gives one a sense of where inventions come from, and that's interesting.
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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
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The strange and scattered pieces of ourselves we leave behind.
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I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.
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I kind of have to take pieces of myself to fit what it is that radio wants.
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Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
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My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
