As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.
Nobody from my label called any of their labels to get this done. Most of it happened very naturally. Mary and I have been friends for a long time. Then Jay-Z offered.
From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.
It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to like you back in that period of time grows up and they leave you back there.
Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.
If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.
I'm a natural golden retriever at heart. I'm fine with that now, but there was a time when I tried to keep myself from jumping up on people. I had to make myself sit.
The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.
The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.
Pop Fisher: People don't start playing ball at your age, they retire!
Roy Hobbs: I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.
Gus Sands: If it isn't enough, tell us what you had in mind. Roy Hobbs: To hit away.
Roy Hobbs: The only thing I know about the dark is you can't see in it.
John Rooney: Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.
Kambei Shimada: [subtitled version] This is the nature of war. By protecting others, you save yourselves.
Willow: Some things in their natural state have the most VIVID colors.
If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.
I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.