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My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's 'Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.'
You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.
It doesn't matter how big the set is or how florid the music is: if it doesn't touch people's hearts, then I don't want to be in it.
By providing clear objectives for your team, and setting guardrails for how they get there, you will set them on the path to success.
The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.
Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
I think all great players set a target for themselves in their careers. Mine was to win a world title with Brazil, which I did twice.
A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
My daily routine is set: I wake up and go for gymnastics, then dance class, gym, and come back home. That's my life. I am very boring.
I think I feel most sexy when I have a matching lingerie set underneath what I'm wearing. I know what's going on and no one else does.
I was able to overcome my failures because I was always confident of my abilities and was sure I could achieve what I had set out for.
I have to believe in myself, set goals for myself, set expectations for myself, and continue to work for those goals every single day.
I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go.
If you were not to set an alarm clock, would you sleep past it? If the answer is yes, then there is clearly more sleep that is needed.
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to see our show, We all had a drink before they set off on their travels, and we kept in touch.
I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
It's easy to talk to people over the Web, but it's not very easy to trigger transactions. That's the thing we set out to fix with Stripe.
Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.
People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
I feel like I've set the example for loving your body no matter what size it is, but I also can set the example for being healthy as well.
It's weird because I see black gay characters on television all the time, but do I relate to them? Not always, because they're set pieces.
Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.
When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home.
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.
I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.
I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'
Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the men of tomorrow, and the idols which one set worship, the next destroy.
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.
I want to accomplish something for myself and set a bar for myself, for somebody to be like, 'Damn, Trippie legendary. He did such and such.'
The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.
I can walk into Tower Records, go get my box set, take out my Steve Miller credit card, and the clerk will look at me and go, 'Thanks, next.'
I have - and this isn't a thing I talk about often - a decent set of legs. There's an unexpected musculature that lends them a healthy shape.
There are people who I still knock around with from the Primrose Hill set, but they have found sobriety, too, and are doing their own things.
When I was little, all I could think about was just being on some kind of stage, whether it be on a live stage, whether it be on a set stage.
What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their own studio.
I didn't set out to be a villain in film. I'm a character actor, and if my first movie was a comedy, I could have played a geek just as well.