#picked

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#capable #create #did #earth #either

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it. ↗

— Julius Erving

#age #basketball #because #difficulty #eight

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#begin #between #came #day #downstairs

I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order. ↗

— Will Arnett

#first #full #got #gotta #greatest

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#i #i tried #picked #racket #tennis

Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time! ↗

— Roy Ayers

#always #artists #ever #every #every time

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me. ↗

— Chili Davis

#bat #effortless #first #first time #game

I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security. ↗

— Robert Stack

#given #i #i think #picked #security

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#being #decided #god #guitar #himself

After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#acting #actress #after #anyway #because