Pieces Quotes
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'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.
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We're all a piece of the puzzle. It's a weird puzzle and it looks odd, but we all fit in it.
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She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.
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What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?
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Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.
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There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
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The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.
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Chanel all the way! Just because not only do they have timeless pieces, but since it is the epitome of class and elegance.
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Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.
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Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and a small subplot that feeds in a twist or an unexpected piece of business that ads crunch and flavor to the story as a whole.
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And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.
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If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.
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It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it
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It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.
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You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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The great thing about costume jewelry is that there's something for everyone - there are very humorous pieces and very extravagant and outrageous pieces.
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The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.
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One of the pieces I'm most satisfied with.
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When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps.
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When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were taking ceramic classes where we had to do a sculptural piece. And when I say a sculptural piece, it's nothing like what we conceive of now as a sculptural piece.
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It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.
