#pieces

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #been #direct #doing #even

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#failed #first #freeze #i #i always

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces. ↗

— Cary Elwes

#deliberate #films #lot #period #pieces

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic. ↗

— Fred Frith

#candy #context #doing #during #enjoyed

So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best. ↗

— David Frum

#cake #experience #first #found #good

I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion. ↗

— Nina Garcia

#both #daily #daily life #every #facet

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#four #genre #i #nonfiction #novels

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#character #each #feed #find #going

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#desired #easier #pieces #result #short

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#everybody #fell #god #greatest #had