#technique

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

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#good #industrial #industrial revolution #introduction #nutritionally

But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques. ↗

— Jim Henson

#alive #creatures #crystal #dark #go

I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#eagle #edward #first-rate #got #guy

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#any #enjoy #films #i #just

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless. ↗

— Alton Brown

#basic #culinary #molecular #sound #technique

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#cake #comes #dancer #decorating #discipline

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#begins #fresh #ideas #man #moment

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#apply #different #different level #each #experienced

Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it. ↗

— Ron Silver

#because #came #craft #i #learned