In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
When you're with a big TV channel, there's a sense of having to behave in a certain way in order to get audience figures.
At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
I was born in New Jersey, but it doesn't sound like I'm from a certain region.
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
I've learned one general thing in filmmaking: to work with one strong idea. One strong concept that pushes you to work in a certain way artistically.
I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.
You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.
My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.
I'm fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibson's extraordinary work 'The Passion of the Christ' were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization.
I think wearing less makeup can seem a bit scary for some women because we get so used to seeing ourselves look a certain way.
About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page. "Will you write like Mr. Blake or like yourself?" I inquired. He wrote and whispered the words aloud as he did. "I am in the library. It smells...
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