“The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.” LittlesDifferentNightFallBitsWeekParticularNormalLittle BitMusicianPerformancesPatternsSchedulesRehearsalDay And NightConductorDifferent Day Author:Leonard Slatkin
“I am the owner of my choices. I am the source for the perspectives I choose to hold regardless of how aware I am of why or how I come to possess that particular perspective. It takes courage to look into the mirror of our souls, absent excuses. I will look into that mirror little bits at a time. SEE and ACT. SEE what I can bear to see and ACT upon what I am able. This is the heart of a gentle invitation to personal responsibility.” LooksHeartLittlesI CanSoulAbleChoicesBitsResponsibilityParticularSourcePerspectiveBearsLittle BitMirrorsExcuseCompromiseGentleOwnersInvitationsAbsentPersonal Responsibility Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.” IdeasStoriesCertainBitsSawsTelevisionParticularNewsTablesNewspapersEncountersBreakfastCommentArticlesRecallsRecognise Author:Mark Z. Danielewski
“Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage to convince himself that taxing America's Productive Class can restore it to prosperity. In point of fact, it's like screwing for chastity, guzzling alcohol for sobriety, or gorging to fight gluttony. It's like killing indiscriminately for peace - oops, Democrats, Republicans and their moral and spiritual ilk have devoutly believed that particular bit of perverse nonsense since at least the War of 1812.” WarFactsAmericaSpiritualFightingLeftBitsMoralClassParticularRepublicanConnectionsWingsDemocratKillingProsperityAlcoholManageProductiveNonsenseConvinceMentorFascistsSobrietyChastityLeft WingGluttonyDementedKeynesWar Of 1812 Author:L. Neil Smith
“Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.” PeopleWritingLooksLittlesStillsEnoughHandsSeemsPassionBitsParticularPaintingLittle BitClothesConsciousWealthyHomelessPlaces To LiveWriting MusicSecond HandPortlandSecond Hand Clothes Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them and they're quite dedicated, it really is not at all an impossible task to enter into salvakalpa samadhi in this particular lifetime.” IfsLittlesPersonsSpiritualBitsBehindsPracticeMeditationImpossibleParticularEvolutionLittle BitTasksLifetimeDedicatedSamadhiSpiritual Evolution Author:Frederick Lenz
“With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.” ArtSometimesCultureBitsParticularCreatingArt IsAccidentsWorks Of ArtPopular Culture Author:Sydney Pollack
“As things have progressed and I've gotten older, I've gotten more and more involved on the producing side. It's been a natural progression. The more you become exposed in a particular medium, the more you can bring to the table and people start trusting you. You're valued a little bit more, so you have more of a voice. It's something I would like to do, through the rest of my career.” PeopleLittlesBitsSidesVoiceNaturalCareersParticularInvolvedLittle BitTablesMediumsExposedProgressionTrusting You Author:Chris Vance
“I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.” ThinkingPoliticalBeliefBitsSituationHeardParticularMythPolitical Beliefs Author:Kevin Spacey
“Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or to focus on particular aspects that magnify or reduce certain things.” LittlesSeemsCertainBitsMemoriesFocusParticularLittle BitAspectHeroicEditsRestructure Author:Chris Ware
“In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.” NeedsLittlesJobsBitsParticularTvsLittle BitVery GoodSpyTheatrical Author:Rowan Atkinson