“In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.” WellsLittlesBookTogetherBitsTermPathInformationSourceSceneLittle BitYeahNarrativeNonfictionMultipleDescribing Author:Ben Mezrich
“Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.” PeopleWorldYearsLittlesKidsBitsDifficultTermStageSucceedLittle BitLowsRateStartingLike Me Author:Daley Thompson
“Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I'd always be thinking a little bit ahead. That's especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.” ThinkingLittlesMomentsWould BeBitsTermLinesSimpleSawsExampleLittle BitDrawsDrawingWhere You AreTenseConcentratingIpadsLimiting Yourself Author:David Hockney
“The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.” LittlesTwoRealCharacterBitsTermHoursComedyMinutesLittle BitNewsStuckExtrasPlotEndearmentReal CharacterTerms Of EndearmentFast Times Author:Judd Apatow
“Playing a character that allows me to play around with some of the feelings I have inside of myself and explore them - and maybe put them to rest a little bit, or at least come to terms with them - feels successful to me. I think it's about believing in what you do.” ThinkingFeelsBelieveLittlesPlayCharacterFeelingsBitsTermSuccessfulLittle Bit Author:Channing Tatum
“Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.” PeopleMenHumansMeanLittlesHas BeensFactsHelpingStoriesProblemRealityFacesUsedBitsTermHoursRaceHealingFantasyMagicTeachingOughtLittle BitInstrumentsMedicineHuman RacePriestsIdleHelping PeopleUnbearableBards Author:Joan Aiken
“Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.” KindLittlesLastsNextBitsTermWalksStepsLittle BitNext Steps Author:Joe Nichols
“You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the internet industry it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.” LittlesBigsBitsTermVisionStepsWeekMonthsIndustryInternetLittle BitInnovationHumbleAspirationVisionariesBe HumbleSmall Steps Author:Jason Calacanis
“In terms of driving, I actually don't have a driver's license, and it's kind of ridiculous. I've lived in Los Angeles for a couple of years and just have somehow managed to avoid taking the test, which I did last week and failed. I couldn't find the honker. I felt bad about it, but it's just a little bit embarrassing, I guess, to be in this film and not have a license.” YearsKindLittlesLastsFilmFeltBitsTermWeekCoupleLittle BitTestsRidiculousDrivingLos AngelesDriversEmbarrassingLicense Author:Imogen Poots
“You cannot do everything you want with the 3D camera, it's too big, and the digital quality of those cameras is a little bit limiting. With film, you have a lot more subtly, like with highlights and color. In terms of sharpness they (both formats) are very close; but in terms of nuance, of color and contrast, film is far superior.” WantLittlesBigsFilmBitsTermQualityColorLittle BitCamerasSuperiorsDigitalContrastFormatNuanceHighlightsSharpness Author:Michel Gondry
“I think what's exciting about doing it as found footage - if we all are being honest, found footage gets a little bit of a bad rap sometimes, but I think that there's a lot of potential in the medium in taking it seriously and in treating the audience with respect and in treating the characters with respect in terms of, why is the camera really on? Where would the camera be when it is on?” IfsThinkingLittlesSometimesCharacterFoundBitsTermAudienceHonestLittle BitExcitingCamerasRapMediumsBeing Honest Author:Dean Israelite
“Before, shortstops and second basemen were mostly defensive guys that made all the plays and didn't really hit that well. But now it's beginning to change a little bit. Now, shortstops and second basemen are very productive in terms of run producing.” WellsLittlesMadePlayRunningGuyBitsTermLittle BitProductiveShortstops Author:Chase Utley
“I think (fantasy football) has become something that needs to be looked at in terms of regulation. Effectively, it's day trading without any regulation at all. When you have insider information, which has apparently been the case, when you have people who use that information, use big data to try and take advantage of it, there has to be some regulation. If they can't regulate themselves, then the NFL needs to look at moving away from them a little bit, and there should be some regulation.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsShouldTryingLooksLittlesUseBigsMovingBitsTermCasesFantasyInformationFootballLittle BitAdvantageDataNflRegulationTradingInsidersMoving AwayFantasy Football Author:Jeb Bush
“If a Danish politician would go up and say he believes in God, people would be a little bit taken aback by that because it's slightly different there than in the U.S. Most of Europe is not that faith based, especially in terms of the politics, and politicians don't use that there.” PeopleIfsBelieveLittlesDifferentUseWould BeBitsTermTakenPoliticianLittle BitEuropeBelieve In GodFaith BasedDanish Author:Nikolaj Arcel
“Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In live television, you wrote much more vertically. You had to probe people because you didn't have money or sets or any of the physical dimensions that film will allow you. So you generally probed people a little bit more. Film writing is much more horizontal. You can insert anything you want: meadows, battlefields, the Taj Mahal, a cast of thousands. But essentially, writing a story is writing a story.” PeopleWantWritingLittlesDifferentStoriesFilmBitsTermDifferencesTelevisionLittle BitScriptsCastsDimensionsWant MeBattlefieldsMeadowsYou Want MeInsertHorizontalTaj MahalMahalLive TelevisionFilm WritingLiterary Terms Author:Rod Serling
“I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.” WayFeelsWritingLittlesBitsTermHabitCreaturesLittle BitCreatures Of Habit Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter
“I do notice that my songs fit all over the map, even in terms of the colloquialisms in them. The songs come out with their references intact, almost unheeded by me. It's like they existed somehow before they met me with their relationship to the tradition, and then they just end up coming through me at that moment because of my relationship to some certain kind of music that I've listened to in my life. I know that sounds a little bit woooey.” KnowsKindLittlesEndsMomentsCertainSongBitsSoundTermFitMetsLittle BitTraditionMapsThat Moment Author:Mirah
“I had been working at home at the time and was looking to find a studio space somewhere outside of my apartment. I thought that might be good for me in terms of having a little bit more discipline with my work habits.” LittlesHomeMightBitsTermSpaceHabitDisciplineLittle BitStudiosBe GoodApartmentWork HabitsStudio Space Author:Ralph Reese
“I don't like words coming out of a character's mouth that I adore because not only is he a little bit duplicitous but he's kind of practical in the way he thinks, and he thinks in terms of everyone's humanity and how quickly we can go against what we think we meant when we said it or what we believe or blah, blah, blah.” ThinkingWayBelieveKindLittlesSaidCharacterHumanityBitsTermLittle BitMouthsPracticalsComing OutAdoreBlah Author:Robert Downey, Jr.
“If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.” IfsLittlesLongCareBitsTermLittle BitDon't CareI Don't Care Author:David Shrigley
“I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.” ThinkingFeelsLittlesRealOrderBitsTermComedyLittle BitTragedyAdd Author:Amy Hill
“The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the country a fairer place. And that's partly a matter of policies that achieve results in terms of reducing inequality and raising middle-class and working-class incomes, which have been flat for decades. But it's also symbolic and rhetorical, it's whether Hillary Clinton can - or whoever's president - can persuade Americans that it's happening and that they can begin to trust their elected officials a little bit more and their institutions of government a little bit more.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensCountryMatterHelpingGovernmentBitsPresidentTermResultsNumbersClassIssuesMiddleAchievePolicyLittle BitHappeningsInstitutionsClintonDecadesIncomeInequalityOfficialsMiddle ClassFlatsWorking ClassReducingSymbolicLarge NumbersRhetoricalElected Officials Author:George Packer
“Why can't it be a curriculum? Why can't it be a life skill that they learn just to look after themselves in terms of a healthy way of eating? I think we need to shake up that whole curriculum and give them a little bit more of a lifestyle early on, before they leave school at 18.” ThinkingWayNeedsGivingLooksLittlesWholeSchoolBitsTermHealthySkillsEatingLittle BitLifestyleShakesCurriculumLife Skills Author:Gordon Ramsay
“In terms of talking about what our politics has become, it now seems as if Barack Obama is starting to stand outside of it a little bit and critique what our politics has become. And I think he sees himself as a useful critic that way saying that it's not only become dishonest, he said, but now we have a selective sorting of the facts and our politics has become self-defeating.” IfsThinkingWayLittlesSaidSelfFactsSeemsBitsTermTalkingLittle BitCriticsStartingBarackStanding OutCritiqueSelectiveSorting Author:Gloria Borger
“There was something about Beyoncé that felt like a vessel, I guess, that I could kind of impose all of these feelings and thoughts onto. I was drawn to a little bit of a dichotomy between the glamour and celebrity and the very deep and complex legacy of black women, and what that means in terms of performance.” KindMeanLittlesFeelingsFeltBitsBlackTermLittle BitPerformancesComplexesLegacyBlack WomenVesselGlamourVery DeepDichotomy Author:Morgan Parker
“I love Texas. Even if I am a little bit famous or a little bit popular... You go to places where you're not and just live like everybody else lives. I'm not crazy about this country in terms of the shape it's in, but I do think there are lots of great pieces to go to. I think I should take advantage of it while this country still exists.” IfsThinkingShouldLittlesStillsCountryBitsTermPiecesCrazyShapesLittle BitAdvantageTexasJust Live Author:Winona Ryder
“That's the thing about golf. In a team sport, when a team's on a roll, you have a little bit more data and comfort in predicting whether the roll's gonna continue, whether the team is playing well and who the opponent is. But the golf course is the opponent. It changes every round in terms of wind and weather and so forth. And your game is never the same two days in a row. It's almost impossible to handicap and predict.” WellsLittlesTwoCoursesGamesBitsSportsTermImpossibleTeamWindComfortLittle BitGolfRoundsWeatherDataOpponentsGolf CourseTwo DaysHandicapsPredictingSports Team Author:Rush Limbaugh