With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.
She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing “yes” in the sky.
In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.
I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
I'm not after a closed system, I mean I'm after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don't think that everything should be decided.
When you're involved with someone for a while, and they decided to express their feelings to the public - that's not my personal way of therapy, but I guess everyone takes split-ups differently.
I always put in my 100 percent. Once the film is over, I look at my next, because then it's up to the audience to decide my fate.
We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today.
In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.
He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953.
I can remember the day I decided I would retire from competitive athletics as vividly as if it were yesterday.
When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.
According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'
I taught high school for one year in Deerfield Beach, Fla., and in the end, it was such an enjoyable experience breaking up fights daily, that I decided to return to the combat zone of Afghanistan.
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.
