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In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.
There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
I like pieces that are cool and simple. I try to wear really cute things, but they just don't suit me at all.
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.
And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.
The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.
A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.
Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.
I will buy six pieces or so a day and just snack on them. Sometimes I wrap them up in my mini seaweed sheets.
If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.
The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.
Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.
I'm constantly revising and updating a piece until it's finally recorded. Once it's recorded, then it's over.
I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.
I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.
I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.
I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.
If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."
If I step out too much while in the process and don't allow myself to get into it, the piece may not get made.
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
I always wanted to do a deal with Russell Simmons, and now I've got my signature on a piece of paper with his.
The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.
I am always looking for some clue, some easily missed sign that might just be the missing piece in the puzzle.
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it.
The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.
Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.
Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.
There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.
The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
I kind of do it in my head, then I'll try pieces of it on stage and if it looks promising, I'll put it together.
The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.
When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.
Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.
It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it
I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.
It's really exciting. It's really exciting when you do a piece of work, and people like it, and it gets noticed.
Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.