Pieces Quotes
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On a piece of paper, write down the thing that is stressing you, the obstacle that is in your way. Then put it in a box and just leave it there. At the end of about a week, dispose of it - throw it in the trash or bury it - some sort of ritualistic act of releasing it.
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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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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 am in a thousand pieces. Painting somehow makes me whole.
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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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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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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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I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.
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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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And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.
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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 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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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
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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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My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
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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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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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Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
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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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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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When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.
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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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Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?
