My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society.
A lollygagger is a person choking on a lollipop. That works perfectly, because I sell Heimlich Maneuvers in a variety of flavors.
The best way we can encourage people to create companies that create jobs is to celebrate the diverse entrepreneurial stories and the variety of drivers that led these entrepreneurs to sticking their necks out.
If I have freedom to experiment with a scene, then I try my best to do that. With TV and with the variety of directors you have on a season, you rarely get that opportunity. It's more structured.
Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.
It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification.
The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.
Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.
I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
What's lovely about what I do for a living is the vast chasm of variety that constantly just comes at you from all angles.
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'
Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.
Aside from the obvious chocolate cookies and ice cream, chocolate can be used in a variety of ways for desserts.
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on ...
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
