#pick

These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#audience #consciously #course #energy #everyone

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion. ↗

— Eminem

#everything #fantasy #goes #handed #having

I'm proud of the way I've dealt with setbacks. It's hard when you feel down and you think, 'Why is the world doing this to me?' But you have to pick yourself up again. That's what makes you a better athlete. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#athlete #better #dealt #doing #down

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#aids #apart #because #change #characters

Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#always #baseball #basketball #coach #excuse

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#guitar #hadn #i #king #link

Now I get to pick and choose exactly what I want to do. ↗

— Verne Troyer

#exactly #get #i #now #pick

At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#back up #because #bed #bottom #call

So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.' ↗

— Tim Vine

#home #i #phone #picked #please

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#guitar #had #inspired #join #many