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I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.
A wood carving of Quixote on his nag Rocinante graced my childhood home.
Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.
What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.
I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.
Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.
Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it's hard to go back.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.
I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.
I admit clearly and frankly that early Mexican art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could do.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.
As far as LeBron James, to me, he's on his way to carving out the very best career that's ever happened in the NBA.
Directing was a great experience, but it's terrifying to have the responsibility of carving up the other actors' performances.
To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
I seem to go through phases with collecting stuff: vintage Japanese men's magazines, coconut monkey carvings, '70s belt buckles.
Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much?
For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.
It's important for kids to see someone who looks like them carving his own path. I definitely acknowledge that, and I think it's super great.
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
I get told a lot that I'm kind of carving my own path. That there are not many actors who are out and are able to play straight and gay, and everyone's OK with it.
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building up from nothing.
That doesn't mean we should be doing it, though. We should always be carving back those things that are comfortable and institutionalized but not necessarily impactful.
I think I'm connected to this issue in some capacity, football and brain damage. So carving out a way to address it tactfully is important to me no matter what I go on to do.
I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.
I would like to go to Kalimantan island in Sumatra to see the carvings and longhouse sculptures. I've also always wanted to look at the wood carvings along the Sepik River in New Guinea.
I didn't know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick Google search will show you 55,000 images of butter carvings, and they're extraordinary.
We are the poorest and weakest state in the world, occupying the lowest position in international affairs; the rest of mankind is the carving knife and the serving dish, while we are the fish and the meat.
One day, a chef moaned that he was too hot, so I took a carving knife in one hand, held his jacket with the other, and slashed it. Then I slashed his trousers. Both garments were still on his body at the time.
I know some bands that don't like touring and are able to make a living producing other bands. There are a lot of ways of carving a living out, but it's become tougher and tougher to figure out what that means.
I'm fascinated by anything that deals with the unexplained. I love any show that totally makes me want to know more. How did they build these pyramids? Why did they find these carvings that look like spaceships?
Carving out our own role, distinct from America's, might not be easy. But we must ask ourselves: what alternative is there? Unthinking, uncritical loyalty to the U.S. under Donald Trump is a far less appealing idea.
Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects of clearing a plate, carving tableside, or pouring wine, and a lifetime to master the emotional elements of service.
I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
In Giacometti's work, the armature has once again become the life-line of the sculpture, and also, he's brought back to sculpture a nervous sensitivity which the 'pure carving' side of sculpture can lose sight of altogether.