There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young.
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither. . . Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.
I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 911 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books. ] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.
The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.
Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things have carried me through, especially when I first started writing. They're still there, but more in the distance these days.
I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I'm doing and noticing what I'm doing, but is giving me time to figure it out. They don't jump right in and give you a note before you've had time to really search on your own with how to do a scene.
I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw
DISCRIMINATE, v. i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
Hi. Cat was just keeping me company until you came back. ” He glanced in the direction she’d just disappeared to before returning his attention to me. “Fourteen hundred and thirty-one. " I blinked. "What's that?" "The year I was born, which is not, as you'll note, yesterday.
I can hold a note and I know I'm not ugly so, in ways, that's enough.
I was interested in writing about gender in this future world where progress has not only halted but turned backward. On another note, sometimes the personal is not so politically correct, and what we are turned on by can't be made to behave.
O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.
Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many.
The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.
Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.
There's very little to be said for learning a piece note by note, reading the rhythmic markings, practising the fingerings and following your instructor's suggestions, if you haven't any idea how the music will eventually sound and feel. If you learn a piece mechanically, you may have to 'unlearn' it before you can play it with expression and feeling.
Barbarian that I am, I had eaten all of it. It had tasted quite nice too. Still, I took note of this fact and resigned myself to throw away half of a perfectly good cheese if it was set in front of me. Such is the price of civilization.
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)
I'll note you in my book of memory.