I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.
When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win.
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.
My first real break was when my college sketch troupe, The State, was asked to contribute pieces for a new MTV show called 'You Wrote It, You Watch It.'
It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
When you're in something as successful as 'Transformers,' you can't use it as a sales piece for your ability as an actress because it's all about the special effects.
It was so exciting to go to the record shop and buy a piece of vinyl and hold it, read the liner notes, look at the pictures. Even the smell of the vinyl.
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
For me it's all about keeping things simple and feeling comfortable in what I am wearing. I prefer investing in classic well-tailored pieces.
I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.
If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.
Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.
We all have the right to choose our own gods, and worship them. No matter even if it is a stone, an animal or a piece of cake.
After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.
I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope.
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.
Break my mirror-heart into a thousand pieces my beloved, so that to the world i may proudly flaunt your thousand reflections
All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
