#usual

Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it. ↗

— Rick Baker

#credit #hire #people #position #run

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. ↗

— Russell Baker

#brilliant #coat #correspondent #dangerous #dozen

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. ↗

— Russell Baker

#done #excuse #just #progress #really

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. ↗

— Stephen Baker

#brute #brute force #cat #come #conviction

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience. ↗

— Christian Bale

#come #fools #make #mean #ones

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#character #downsize #gets #getting #getting better

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#anyone #boundaries #everyone #hear #his

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#guided #i #i do #out #question

I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script. ↗

— Angela Bassett

#appreciate #because #directing #directors #five

The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City. ↗

— Mario Batali

#city #filled #had #hamptons #hoped