By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.
Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.
On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day.
I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
Modeling has given me the opportunity to travel outside of Brazil and see the world. I have been meeting many interesting and talented people along the way.
We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.
Nobody: What name were you given at birth, stupid white man?
Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.
As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.
Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.
Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science.
Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.
I love my body because it's what I've been given. Being too thin is just as unhealthy as being obese.
I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.
