Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.
As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.
You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare.
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.
My process is I try to learn my lines so they're so solid I don't have to think about them or how I'm going to say them.
Hey listen, I already have a complete list of silver linings. It's the goddamn cloud that's killin me.
If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.
As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.
This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.
A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.
The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.
Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
The deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines.
All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.
When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.
It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.
In fact, the bandits steal the drinks and assistance provided along the course. Worse, they cross the finish line and mess up the scoring of legitimate runners.
The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.
You have to remember where you came from, and I definitely have enough brothers and sisters to kick me in the butt whenever I get out of line!
