My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
the dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.
Military parades roll down the Champs-Elysees, but pedestrians stroll up ["East Meets West on the Champs-Elysees,"
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Just like downing a powerful caffeine drink, “reaching out to others” pays that big “life energizer dividend!
Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?
I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?
Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.
No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.
When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don't know where the next job is going to come from.
Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.
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.
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
Between 1972 and 1987, the number of Democratic women in the House had actually gone down, from 14 to 12. EMILY's list started doing House races in 1988.
The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' plotline.
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
