Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.
I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.
There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.
Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.
I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
I've always been really opinionated, and mixed with being really open hearted, open to people shifting what I think all the time, but I like to speak with conviction.
I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.
Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?
My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's.
It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
A writer looks at an issue and asks, 'What if this were to occur? Or what if that was thrown into the mix? What would that look like?
Sweet potatoes are ideal for lazy days: just bake, then mash and mix with yogurt, butter or olive oil.
I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.
Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them.
Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like Negroes and white men. But in reality there is no such differe...