#turned

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee. ↗

— Jeff Flake

#appropriations #committee #earmark #filled #forms

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#classics #fact #how #influence #interesting

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#corner #existence #first #first time #had

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#brad #brad pitt #down #face #get

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #back #backward #barbaric #because

Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#bit #costume #could #floating #hardly

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#garbage #i #lately #lot #turned

I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#break #burning #calories #day #days

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me. ↗

— James Taylor

#amazingly #blessings #how #i #look

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well. ↗

— Art Linkletter

#come #had #hoop #i #ideas