Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.
My rule is you want someone whos got both feet on the ground. An ideal girlfriend might be someone who works in the business and can understand what youre going through but is not an actor themselves - is willing to run lines with you but when you start acting crazy, they throw up their hands and take you for what you are and be accepting.
As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.
Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.
Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.
A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the business owner who has the courage to craft such a statement.
POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.
The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.
H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right. ' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us, in Fulke Greville's unforgettable line, "Created sick Commanded to be well. " And there are totalitarian insinuations to back this up if its appeal should fail.
Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.
The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage.
The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability. " That's what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.
They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.
I really had to act; 'cause I didn't have any lines.
What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.
Only a single line is needed to discover who is doing what.
I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.
The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.
My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread