I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.
The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.
I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.
Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes.
My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.
I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.
The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.
But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
To prepare for the mountains develop mind, body, will and spirit as strong as a sword, soft as a pillow and fluid as water.
I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.
Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically.
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.'
I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck!
For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.
I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways, leads are easier because you have the luxury of time to discover the character.
Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.
Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.
Narrator: Downtown Hohman was preparing for this yearly baccanalia of peace on Earth and goodwill to men.
