Pieces Quotes
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The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.
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When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
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Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.
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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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Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.
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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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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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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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If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's like trying to explain what a piece of music is like. You can't do it.
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A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.
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The strange and scattered pieces of ourselves we leave behind.
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I am in constant search for that project that speaks to me personally. And when all the pieces come together properly, it'll happen.
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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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To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy.
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If Bernard Leach didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to produce the pot that he had designed on paper in front of us.
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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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When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.
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I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.
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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've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.
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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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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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One of my favorite pieces of fan mail was a gift that I got. It was a jar filled with handwritten nice thoughts.
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And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.
