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You can't go up to girls and start talking about minor 7ths and expect to pull. It's not going to work.
I don't know how the 'Richie' started. My name is Richard, and they called me Dick in the minor leagues.
I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.
Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.
My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.
All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.
I'm sure that no matter what I'm involved in, I'll always be doing comics, at least in some minor capacity.
I am a sad person. In this world there are people who like major notes and minor notes. I like minor notes.
If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.
I would really love to go back to college, if there's any way I could to do it, and maybe minor in business.
Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.
I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just minor stepping stones.
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.
Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective.
Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.
I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.
The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote. Our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.
Maureen O'Sullivan did 'Hannah and Her Sisters' with Mia Farrow, her daughter, but O'Sullivan had a very minor role.
Once you leave the minor leagues, you want to not come back. But it's the path that I'm on, the journey that I'm on.
I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
Sometimes astronauts feel a little ill or get minor scrapes. I trained as a crew medical officer to do basic treatment.
Football, played at its highest level, is catastrophic. Even relatively minor afflictions are grotesque and bookworthy.
When I was growing up, I always had the dream of being an analyst for a minor league baseball team or something like that.
I just got to be more aggressive. A lot of time, I just got to make the right reads. It's nothing major, just minor tweaks.
Every college player thinks they're on their way. But, delusions aside, I might have toiled in the minor leagues for a bit.
In Canada, we didn't really pay attention to American hardcore outside of maybe Minor Threat. It was all about British punk.
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want them to look like plastic dolls.
I still carry it with me that I'm a I-AA guy and I had to go down to the minor leagues in college football and prove who I was.
Everything alters and changes with time. Some things that are considered triumphs, and 10 years later, they're considered minor.
Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.
If you look at poker as a sport like baseball, then I'd be maybe a minor league or high school ballplayer. But I play with T-ballers.
We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.
Throughout history, Hanukkah was a relatively minor festival, but it's become very popular in America due to its proximity to Christmas.
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
Ever since I released my first album, I've tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic.
When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.
The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.
In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.