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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.
Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.
If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.
I don't know how to do anything else and lack any skill that would be applicable on a resume. Drag is what I know. The gigs are my life.
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.
'Spamalot' was a blip! I've never done anything else like that, and yet it's the only time I've ever been nominated for an Olivier award!
I realized that I didn't want to do anything else. Plus, I realized I was good, and, most importantly, I actually loved to sing on stage.
From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band.
A lot of my time, effort, and focus is spent on 'WhatsApp'. And that, to me, is more valuable and rewarding than to work on anything else.
I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.
Before Churchill had done anything else, he was a writer. He believed to the core that words matter. They count. They can change the world.
People call me a whole lot of things, but above anything else, I'm a fighter, and it's going to be hard to accept an identity without that.
I wish podcasting was my only job - I have more fun doing that than I have doing absolutely anything else. But my job is that I'm a writer.
Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.
Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
In the New Testament, Jesus talks more about stewardship and finances and management of your life than anything else outside the love of God.
I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice.
When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
I'm more American than anything else. I grew up in China, but I was fulfilled at a young age by American music. It was my biggest inspiration.
I'm really not good at anything else, so if I don't make it as a musician, I'll probably just end up living in the woods with a bunch of dogs.
I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.
India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.
When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
That's what I do this for, to secure my family's future. I don't care about anything else. I'm able to spoil people, and that's the best thing.
I did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.'
People comment on how you look; it's so unnecessary. I just wanted people to listen to what I have to say instead of focusing on anything else.
There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.
From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.
The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn't good at anything else - not that I was good at it, but it was considered honest work.
When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.
We had a normal childhood. I played baseball, and we played violin in orchestras three times a week. I learned more from that than anything else.
If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.
If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.
When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.
Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.
My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.