I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.
People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable of doing so. But the truth is that secrets exist to be revealed; and it is usually very easy to find the combination of words that will cause them to emerge.
men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.
Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.
Same thing for the bad guy. People were really after this guy Radovan Karadicz. But I came up with a combination of several people, who then became The Fox. That's who Simon Hunt and Duck are after. I did that so I could have freedom with what The Fox said and did, so that I didn't have to be stuck. Certain things I wanted to stay to the truth. Certain things I changed, and certain things are the facts.
I'm a combination of Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn and Ralph Stanley.
It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.
Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.
Once you move in with your significant other, you have to become a combination of each other.
It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and. . . an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.
One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.
The 250-page outline for American Tabloid. The books are so dense. They're so complex, you cannot write like I write off the top of your head. It's the combination of that meticulousness and the power of the prose and, I think, the depth of the characterizations and the risks that I've taken with language that give the books their clout. And that's where I get pissed off at a lot of my younger readers.
Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.
The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.
There were lots of things that I recognized from my experience with Eagle Claw and Wu Hao, and here was the combination of the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole tamale in one.
The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.
The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression
It was a strange combination to absorb - the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his early days in seventeenth-century London.
