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“A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.”

Way Self Care Artist Bits Careers Taken Progress Everyday Self Worth

Book:Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

“Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.”

Way Values Bits Simple Produce Creatures Survival Complicated Avoiding Constraints Flocks Guarded Admonition

Book:Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.”

Thinking Trying Littles Bigs Culture Bits Goodness Little Bit Starting About Yourself Starting Point

Author:David Brooks

“It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.”

Bits Disease Democrat Complaining Nerves Inflation American Politics Germs

Book:The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

Source: The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word

“Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.”

Ifs Littles Two Problem Earth Bits Party Race Arms Little Bit American Politics Arms Race

Author:Hugh Sidey

“Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.”

Thinking Littles Sex Bits Little Bit

Author:Texas Guinan

“These fans here are unbelievable. They showed up and showed out tonight. We needed every little bit of it.”

Littles Bits Fans Needed Little Bit Tonight Championship Unbelievable Nba Championships

Author:LeBron James

“I cannot say for certain that God does not exist; I think the worst thing that can be said about him is that he's a bit of an underachiever.”

Thinking Doe Said Certain Belief Bits Worst Superstitions Worst Things

Author:Woody Allen

“We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for this reason that anthropologists have not shown much interest in these models, unlike economists, for example, for whom the use of mathematics poses no problem. However, one could reach the same conclusions by using just a bit of common sense.”

Reason Use Problem Bits Interest Common Example Reader Models Advantage Mathematics Common Sense Conclusion Economist No Problem Appreciated Precision Anthropologists

Author:Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

“Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the sensorial worlds as access points or pathways to ineffability.”

World Littles Different Use Form Bits Buddhism Little Bit Access Pathways Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Voicing acting is usually fun. I'm very curious about that world. I'm a fan of documentaries, as well, and the voice kind of makes it right. Mostly for me, though, it's all about the acting -you don't have to get hair and makeup and the whole bit. You just can have fun with the acting.”

World Wells Kind Whole Fun Bits Voice Acting Fans Hair Curious Having Fun Makeup Documentaries Hair And Makeup

Author:Marg Helgenberger

“So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.”

Littles Whole Bits Generations Little Bit Series My Generation

Author:Madeleine Albright

“To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.”

People Should Children Littles Hard Bits Hard Work Months Little Bit Fund Retirement Each Month

Author:William Hague

“My weak spot is that I don't like analyzing so I tend to be a bit lazy; I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.”

Mean Bits Weak Boring Spots Bored Lazy Analyzing Weak Spots

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“If God is watching your every move, you should probably straighten up your act a little bit.”

Ifs Should Littles Moving Bits Little Bit

Author:Misha Collins

“Early days, I was a bit racked , particularly when I did Hitler, for CBS . That was hellish. That stayed with me for quite a long time.”

Long Bits Long Time

Author:Robert Carlyle

“I like playing interesting people, I like playing slightly twisted people. I like playing people who have large appetites who are kind of a bit larger than life.”

People Kind Bits Interesting Appetite Twisted Larger Than Life

Author:Ron Perlman

“I hate to say it, and Apple never likes it, but I love anything that's hacker oriented. I don't like passing it onto others, or getting things for free. I don't like stealing music one bit, at all.”

Hate Bits I Hate Stealing Likes Passing Passings Apples Hackers Passing It

Author:Steve Wozniak

“I'm sure favorite moments in movies are things that just happen accidentally when the camera is there. You have to do all the homework to get yourself into the period, the costumes, the style, the voice, the hairdo or whatever it is, but once you've done all that work, you have to kind of let it go and just be there. If you're always thinking about it, it just looks a bit over-thought.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Kind Done Moments Happens Bits Voice Style Periods Cameras Costumes Let It Go Homework Always Thinking Hairdos

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.”

Kind Littles Long Sometimes Facts Lasts Bits Situation Little Bit Resigned

Author:Queen Latifah

“First thing the developer has to do is to get an assessment of the threatened species, of the ecological values of that site. At the moment, that developer lodges an application, there's usually trade-offs, negotiations, you end up with remnant bits of land. You might end up with some other offset land that the public has to run. There's no cohesive system of then making sure that we maintain and improve biodiversity values.”

Firsts Ends Moments Might Running Values Bits Land Trade Species Application Site Threatened Negotiation Ecological Assessment Biodiversity Developers Remnants Lodges Trade Offs

Author:Frank Sartor

“The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.”

Needs Believe Littles Lasts Bits Emotion Audience Minutes Little Bit Add Hardest Crafts Hardest Thing Always Believe Last Minute True Emotions

Author:John Lasseter

“The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.”

Looks Littles Reality Film Bits Audience Little Bit Harder Convincing Caricatures

Author:John Lasseter

“I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for working on the Sabbath or switching on a light on the Sabbath. So the point is that you can find good bits of the Bible but you have to cherry-pick, you have reject the nasty bits and pick the nice bits.”

People Ifs Light Bits Moral Nice Picks Scripture Rejects Nasty Sabbath Cherries Suggesting Switching

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think of myself as a bit of a Salieri, looking with longing eyes at Mozart.”

Thinking Believe Enough Eye Artist Bits Sides Longing Brave Dare Never Quit Salieri

Author:Stephen Fry

“Directing requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are like generals. It's a bit like a small war on that level. The great ones have that combination of freedom and control. I'm nowhere near that. There's still so much to do as an actor. I have enough to explore with that.”

Stills War Enough Actors Bits Ability Levels Discipline Combination Great Ones

Author:Robin Williams

“I'm a guy who's all about peace, love, and happiness. I'm a bit of a hippie.”

Guy Bits Hippie Happiness And Love Peace Love

Author:Corey Feldman

“I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn't in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren't pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.”

Care Bits Trouble Groups Girlfriend Good Relationship Bad Relationship

Author:Mick Jagger

“Now when you get something like the Apocalypse of John, when this avenging God is going to have blood to the bridle bits for 200 miles, I think that's venous, I don't think that's justice, I don't think that's Jesus, and I don't think it's the God of Jesus. That's the killer God, and the trouble with the killer God is that it justifies us doing the same, and in fact it invites us maybe to start with a bit.”

Thinking Facts Jesus Bits Justice Trouble Blood Miles Justify Invites Killers Apocalypse Avenging

Author:John Dominic Crossan

“As a game-show host, what I'm thinking and what I'm experiencing doesn't matter. My opinion doesn't matter. So there's a flattened reality to it. It's fun to do. But it's certainly not myself in totality - or even maybe a little bit.”

Thinking Littles Matter Shows Reality Games Fun Bits Opinion Little Bit Host Totality Game Shows

Author:Michael Ian Black

“I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character.”

Littles Character Use Actors Bits Personality Little Bit Qualifications

Author:Michel Gondry

“I feel like humor is the answer to everything. If you have a little bit of humor in the shaker and you can sprinkle that on, that's your answer.”

Ifs Feels Littles Bits Answers Little Bit Sprinkles Shakers

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going on these. If I couldn't do the readings, I wouldn't do the [signing] tours. I get to stand up there and read to a bunch of adults who in many cases nobody's read to in years, since they were about five. They just squat on the floor. That's enormously enjoyable.”

Ifs Years Reading Fun Bits Cases Five Adults Bunch Enjoyable Signing Squat

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The real problem with Donald Trump is, if you engage him, it will only make things worse. It's like - it's a little bit what you were taught as a kid to not engage the bully, because they will continue to pick on you.”

Ifs Littles Real Problem Kids Bits Taught Trump Little Bit Picks Bully Real Problems

Author:Amy Walter

“I think I understand the Constitution a little bit because in 1971 we went off the gold standard under President Nixon into the Federal Reserve notes because we were a worldwide currency.”

Thinking Littles Bits President Little Bit Standards Gold Constitution Notes Currency Reserves Federal Reserve Gold Standard President Nixon

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“I'm a very pragmatic soul. I'm part of the business and I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to being an over-believer in spiritual or in paranormal matters.”

Soul Matter Spiritual Bits Believer Paranormal Pragmatic Cynic

Author:Jane Anderson

“I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.”

Feels Looks Body Life Is Easy Stuff Bits Forever One Thing Goes On Proud Lucky Messages Glory Woods Fortunate Damn Touching Damn Good Life Is Not Easy

Author:Paul McCartney

“I would say nobody is perfect. I don't know all the answers. I have don't want to run people's lives and run the world and run the economy. So, my qualifications are a little bit different.”

People Knows World Want Littles Different Running Bits Answers Perfect Economy Little Bit Qualifications

Author:Ron Paul

“You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line.”

Knows Want Trying Littles Guy Fun Bits Lines Grew Basketball Little Bit Grew Up Evolve Drag Finish Line Older Guys

Author:Mike D'Antoni

“Most of the time is with the family. Most of the time, is all the time. When we work it's a very intensive chunk of time. We work for 12 hours a day, 14 hours a day is common. And we'll do that for a few months and then we get to relax a little bit.”

Littles Bits Hours Common Months Little Bit Relax Working It Chunks

Author:Brad Pitt

“Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue.”

Thinking Knows Bits Issues Confused

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I'm not happy unless I've got a little bit of fear going.”

Littles Bits Little Bit Not Happy

Author:Naomi Watts

“I want to look my best, but I'm not a model. I'm not an actress. I'm representing normal girls. It's OK to have a little bit of curve. I'm happy with my body. So many girls come up to me and say, "Thank you for being normal," and I'm proud of that.”

Want Looks Littles Body Girl Bits Proud Normal Little Bit Models Come Up Actresses Curves Representing Saying Thank You

Author:Miranda Lambert

“Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.”

Thinking Writing I Can Hard Done Past Life Is Three Bits Can Do Gone Five Materials Anxiety Jokes Pressure Come Up Relax Screenplays I Can Do It Paralyzed

Author:Steve Martin

“I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.”

Feels Littles Found Bits Novel Succeed Little Bit Built Tendencies Fragile Fossils Unbroken Archaeologists

Author:Stephen King

“I really don't listen to anyone that I'm not proud of saying that I listen to. Even if it's something a little bit more unexpected, I didn't get too deep into the Waka, Gucci records, but I like those with pride.”

Ifs Littles Bits Records Pride Proud Little Bit Unexpected Too Deep Gucci

Author:Solange Knowles

“A lot of times I use live musicians, but I don't want it to have that live funky sound so I'll just take the best loop of a drum part and repeat it over and over and over again so that there's consistency and it feels a little bit more programmed. But I have a love/hate relationship with comping as well.”

Want Feels Wells Littles Use Hate Bits Sound Little Bit Musician Repeats Consistency Love Hate Loops Funky Love Hate Relationship

Author:Solange Knowles

“I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them. What I like to do with songs, is kind of throw a little curveball in the lyrics or in the arrangement, to kind of give it a little twist to it.”

Giving Kind Littles Song Bits Little Bit Arrangements Twists Curveballs

Author:John Legend

“The casting is the most important thing. If you cast a picture really well a lot of things take care of themselves. You get actors that like to give a lot to the role and who appreciate the role on the same level that you do. If you miscast it, you're working an uphill battle a little bit and maybe you can come out okay but you can't always come out great.”

Ifs Giving Wells Littles Important Care Actors Bits Levels Roles Battle Little Bit Appreciate Okay Important Things Casts Take Care Casting Uphill Battles

Author:Clint Eastwood

“When you look at how American national freight systems are connected, it's a bit of a patchwork. When you look at how even road systems and rail systems work across state lines, it's a bit of a patchwork.”

Looks States Bits Lines Connected Rail Patchwork

Author:Anthony Foxx

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