#piece

When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#come running #confrontation #everybody #military #pick

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#admire #author #note #piece #read

In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person. ↗

— Robert Evans

#get #good #material #only #people

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#cardboard #create #exciting #exists #i

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#i think #own #piece #promotion #right

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#context #dreamed #everything #finish #hear

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#add #again #aunt #did #difficult

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#different #electronic #equipment #highly #i

Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it. ↗

— Michael Apted

#anything #country #english #exercised #great

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul. ↗

— Dario Argento

#characters #each #little #little piece #me