#honed

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed. ↗

— Anita Desai

#day #effort #every #every day #honed

We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers. ↗

— Pat Williams

#cheerleaders #cheers #home #last #last year

If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#capable #down #every #favorite #fraction

It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach. ↗

— Ronald Harwood

#approach #back #down #generally #him

In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform 'Oh Jean.' ↗

— Billy Boyd

#crowe #fact #go #guitar #had

I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know? ↗

— Paul McDonald

#artist #been #exactly #honed #i

I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing. ↗

— Clive Owen

#because #craft #employing #honed #i

I have an ability that I've already honed in on to get better. ↗

— Terrell Owens

#already #better #get #honed #i

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like? ↗

— Brad Pitt

#grandfather #grandparents #i #like #movie

The knives of jealousy are honed on details. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#details #honed #knives