In general, the apparel industry isn't about continual process improvement or making the perfect piece of denim; it's about chasing trends.
And I have to speculate that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes, like puzzle pieces from the clay.
'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
We work for the public, and I believe that if a senator wants to block a piece of legislation or a nominee, they owe the public an explanation.
An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.
A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.
I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.
But sometimes things happen that no one hopes for. Events that cause everything you've worked towards, the life you've carefully constructed piece by piece, to come tumbling down all around you. No one is to blame, but you're left with a wound you ca...
In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down t...
I feel like, I was going somehow with my life, holding myself together and then these blasts happened, and then suddenly I was paralyzed. I was not able to move, or to even hold myself intact. As if like I was fallen into this unconscious state, of e...
What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find myself wondering about their lives. I can never look at a garment... without thinking about the woman who owned it. How old was she? Did she work? Was ...
Don Lope de Aguirre: I am the great traitor. There must be no other. Anyone who even thinks about deserting this mission will be cut up into 198 pieces. Those pieces will be stamped on until what is left can be used only to paint walls. Whoever takes...
I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.
There's an amazing intimate feeling in a small club but an insane rush playing a stadium or festival.
The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.
