Picks Quotes - Page 19

• I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.

  Emily Blunt

  Jobs, Taken, Thinking

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2012.

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• Hitchhiking, intrinsically, is sexual and dangerous. At the same time I never really felt scared. I was scared that nobody would pick me up and that I'd be waiting by the side of the road for a week.

  John Waters

  Waiting, Pick Me Up, Sides

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• If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.

  Nick Offerman

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  "Nick Offerman on Voicing FXX’s ‘Axe Cop’ and His Love of Live Theater". Interview with Lance Carter, www.dailyactor.com. April 23, 2015.

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• I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Locks, Research, Pottery

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• I think, sometimes, artists release music too fast. If you just sit back and listen to the track for a little bit you could pick and choose how you want to do it and see if you really feel the song, because sometimes you might not even like the song after a few listens.

  Schoolboy Q

  Song, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.acclaimmag.com

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• I'm not one of those who spring up yelling, "Yippee! Another day!" I'll grumble and sulk around a couple of hours, reading newspapers and trying to pick out an idea I might do something with on the show. But I don't really start functioning until noon or later; then about two I go to the studio and the pace begins to quicken.

  Johnny Carson

  Couple, Spring, Reading

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• Most of us think that decisions such as where shall I live, with whom shall I partner, what shall I pick as a career for my life are the most important decisions that we make. But from the point of view of the universe these decisions are not that important. Within you, you have already made decisions about who you are, what the universe is and how you will relate to other people and how you will relate to the universe and these decisions are creating consequences in your life moment by moment.

  Gary Zukav

  Thinking, Careers, Creating

  Source: www.williamjames.com

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• I'm legitimately having more fun doing music, but at the same time I worked my whole life for baseball. If I had to pick, I would probably pick music. I just connect more with the fact that other people connect with that I'm doing so much. It's a much cooler thing than being good at sports.

  Mike Stud

  Sports, Baseball, Fun

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Mom, Home, Years

  Source: rutherford.org

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• If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Men, Problem, Wrong Man

  Source: rutherford.org

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• Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Trying, Half

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• You come to work knowing you're going to do good work without any doubt. You can go where you need to go and nothing is wrong and you pick the rightnesses out. If something doesn't work, you let them go, but you don't hold onto those wrongnesses. You just hold onto the rightnesses, so it's a playing field that anyone would want and feel much more comfortable with.

  John Travolta

  Knowing, Doubt, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• You pick pieces of things you've experienced in life to make it real to yourself.

  Brooklyn Sudano

  Real, Pieces

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• Good filmmakers actually are people who have lived life, who have something to say, who have stories to tell. People who fall, perhaps make a bad film, pick themselves up and go on to make another one. What strength people exhibit.

  Juliet Asante

  Fall, People, Stories

  Source: www.premiumtimesng.com

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• I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks me - via a question I can't answer as a mom, a wife, a woman, an American. I find myself wondering "What if..." and it blossoms into a whole novel.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mom, Book, Ifs And

  Source: www.bookclubforum.co.uk

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• That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.

  Donal Henahan

  Art, Long, Legacy

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• Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.

  Linda Hirshman

  Revenge, Battle, Ladders

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I actually kind of like Janet Reno. She seems like a nice enough lady. But when you're basically going through the entire phone book trying to find women lawyers who don't have maids to pick the attorney general of the United States, how well can you do?

  Dave Barry

  Nice, Book, Phones

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• I grew up in a tough neighborhood where a lot of kids were older than me. The older kids decided to pick me on me starting when I was about 6 and it didn't take me long to take a stand for myself.

  Bo Jackson

  Kids, Long, Tough

  Source: whatmakesagreatathlete.weebly.com

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• When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Sides, Bed, Tables

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. May 24, 2002.

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• I feel like I've gotten an extraordinary opportunity to experience a sort of collective humanity. If you hug many people in such a short period of days you pick up on a communal energy, almost like feeling a giant heartbeat that everyone is beating together.

  Rob Bell

  Opportunity, People, Feelings

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• I've got a lot of songs about having fun and partying, but it's a lot of work. Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps.

  Juicy J

  Song, Fun, Rap

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• As nervous as I am to pick up a water bottle, that's how nervous I am to perform. My confidence is very high. I really enjoy going up, I feel like it's my birthday everyday that I have to go up there.

  Gucci Mane

  Water Bottles, Everyday, My Birthday

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• As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.

  George Saunders

  Trying, Stories, Firsts

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