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“If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.”

Ifs Rooms Practice Audience Pieces Fronts Prove Tape Living Room

Author:Dave Van Ronk

“Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things?”

Giving Enough Values Asks Rooms Creative Pieces Buddhism Balance Paper Harmony Down And Lists Superficial Adopting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.”

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Author:Ryan Tedder

“In terms of collaboration, working on a new piece is always thrilling, as I'm sure most people would say, because the playwright is in the room and the piece itself evolves in response to what is happening in the room.”

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Author:Gideon Glick

“Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff.”

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Author:Julie Klam

“A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.”

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Author:Robert Bresson

“Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.”

Ifs Individual Rooms Pieces Broken Thousand Authority Institutions Faults Anything Goes

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians

“There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts and cannot put one word after another and imagine that I have suffered a small stroke, leaving me apparently undamaged but actually aphasic.”

Writing Rooms Pieces Imagine Leaving Imagine That Strokes Leaving Me One Word

Book:Slouching towards Bethlehem

Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem

“I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.”

Writing Rooms Novel Pieces

Author:Angela Cartwright

“Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving.”

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Author:William Zinsser

“No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to carry that around on my hip pocket. That was not a thought until NASA initiated this whole exercise. So there's an influence that's not just spinoff.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Anyhow, there simply isnt enough room in the museums Fishes Hall, so weve decided to pretend to the public that a whale is actually a mammal without any legs. Its pathetically ridiculous-I mean to say, just look at the thing, its a gigantic fish if I ever saw one-but mums the word! In my experience the public will believe just about anything, so long as you write it down on a little piece of card.”

Ifs Writing Believe Looks Mean Littles Long Enough Rooms Saws Pieces Decided Fishes Legs Ridiculous Cards Halls Museums Mum Whales Mammals

Author:Gideon Defoe

“I’m not being cynical, but when you’re doing a movie you have a number of choices as an actor. Then you see it all cut together and all of those precious little pieces you put in are maybe on the cutting room floor. So, you don’t have that much control. You have very little control, in fact.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“[Electronic newspapers will bring] plenty of ulcers for journalists because they'll have new deadlines every 60 seconds. It'll be a race to file. On the other hand, because space is infinite there will hopefully be more room for thoughtful pieces, longer pieces, the kind that a journalist wishes he or she could do but doesn't have the space.”

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Author:Russ Wilcox

“In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.”

Ifs Should Hands Bits Rooms Pieces Feet Fine Fool Drawing Painter Queens Hung Palaces Thighs Venus Guise Cupid Obscenity Connoisseur

Author:Horace Walpole

“There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future.”

Two Rooms Pieces Two Things Timeless Decor

Author:Charlotte Moss

“Packing is basically: If you're going on a weekend, then just take what you're really going to wear. And how many times are you going to leave the room? If that makes any sense. Like if you're going to sleep, read, and sit by a fire - chunky knit sweaters, leggings, comfortable boots. But if you're going on like a party weekend, then bring your favorite pieces and make sure you'll wear them.”

Ifs Sleep Rooms Party Fire Pieces Comfortable Weekend Boots Going To Sleep Sweaters Your Favorite Packing Leggings

Author:Rachel Zoe

“It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if I could find a piece of music, I went through a **** load of classical music to find something that I felt had a certain urgency to it, but also with a hint of melancholia and maybe a sense of longing. I found that which is public domain and I had a piano teacher to go through it with me.”

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Author:Colin Farrell

“The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.”

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Author:Ben Folds

“I've always had a fascination with interior design. As a kid, I used to go to real estate open houses with my parents on the weekends. Like a nerd! I would think of how I would piece rooms together at those open houses.”

Thinking Real Kids Together Used House Parent Rooms Pieces Design Weekend Estates Interiors Nerd Fascination Interior Design

Author:Jeremiah Brent

“It's unusual to spend even three full hours away from my newborn baby, it's like a piece of my body is back in the hotel room, and it does feel strange. But I love my work, though, it's not just a job for me, punching in my time card. I've always loved what I do, it's what makes me happy and I figure if I'm happy I'll be a good Mum too.”

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Author:Naomi Watts

“Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.”

Writing Reading Rooms Pieces Tests Dialogue Spokes Acid Living Room

Author:Anne Tyler

“If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding.”

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Author:Muriel Spark

“I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.”

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Author:Nate Berkus

“You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.”

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel

“And also, I'm most comfortable with like two people just sitting and talking about their feeling, you know, in a room with like two cameras and that's it. And I wanted to do something where there was like action and running and you know crowd scenes and big set pieces and certainly did a lot of that, so yeah.”

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Author:Nicholas Stoller

“Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.”

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Author:Paul Simon

“My plan is if you come to the shows in the first run of dates the versions you'll hear live are quite close to the record. But because I can set this up identically afterwards in a hotel room I can actually work when I'm on the move. The aim is that all the pieces will have had substantial remixes and different parts added and subtracted.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Different Shows Running Moving Rooms Records Pieces Plans Aim Versions Hotel Because I Can Hotel Rooms Remix

Author:Squarepusher