Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.
My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break.
Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.
The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.
It's always great when you just pound the rock, impose your will, and that is going to break the spirit of the defense if you can keep running it and they can't stop you.
Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.
I've always aligned myself with a more modern, European fit. I maintain that fit is the thing that makes or breaks an outfit. Good tailoring trumps designer and price any day.
I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.
For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.
Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.
I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.
Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.
You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.
If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.
My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
If you cannot piece someone else's heart back to its original condition, don't dare to break it.
