A couple of guys won Academy Awards for the things that I turned down. Today, after coming to terms with everything, after being in therapy for a long time-there are areas where I will compromise.
I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
I was picked on because I was timid. I had younger sisters; I couldn't turn to them for help. I didn't have an older brother.
A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.
I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.
Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.
Forever?" Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie. "Longer.
There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
Noble though it may be, our way of life is nothing but servitude. It does not take long for servitude to turn to subjugation. – Shikandin Draupada
As it turns out, American-made technology had helped Mubarak and his security state collect, compile, and parse vast amounts of data about everyday citizens.
When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.
My favourite pastime used to be sitting on a park bench watching people. But after 'Jagged Little Pill,' the eyeballs turned, and I was the watched one.
Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.
My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.
As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.
