The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.
At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.
People say the Beatles were John Lennon. What is Paul McCartney? Chopped liver? But everyone has their own favourite members whose creativity they gravitate to. That's normal.
There were no fear of death in children’s eyes because they had seen hanging, stoning to death and chopping heads in playgrounds and parks.
The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.
Everything we did, we did live - and then Bobby took it home and chopped it up and edited it. Which is pretty much what they did with every jazz record you've ever heard.
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil.
I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.
I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.
When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.
I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.
I believe in nonfat. I gain two pounds when I eat a lamb chop.
I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.
Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
If you watch '90210,' you see my hair changing every episode - I've chopped it off, and I've kept it long. I've done it all to my hair on that show.
Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.
Hamm: You heard of Kung Fu? Well get ready for pork chop.
I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.
Ray: Back off, shorty! Jimmy: You don't know karate! [Ray karate chops Jimmy's neck]
