Pieces Quotes - Page 25

• Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Writing, Jigsaw Puzzles, Lasts

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• That's why I'm so passionate about making music for movies because you dive in and find the best ideas to bring tolife a collective piece of art. ... [Composing] is not a job for me. And that explains why I never stop. Even though it's tough on your body and your brain and the sacrifices you have to make, what can I do? I'm passionate about it so I never stop.

  Alexandre Desplat

  Music, Art, Jobs

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• Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave the cue to the piano player-I never got to know him: a long dark, evil-looking brother, with hands made for strangling; and with these hands he attacked the keyboard like he was beating the brains out of someone he remembered. No doubt the congregation had their memories, too, and they went to pieces. The church began to rock.

  James A. Baldwin

  Music, Brother, Memories

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• If I'm writing... even a piece of a song... I write it down. If it still resonates six months down the line, a year, even five, those are the ones you put in your bag and you take to the studio. You come to realize, the ones that don't make it, they were only meant to live for that moment in your notebook or on the 4-track-and plenty of songs never get any farther than the 4-track.

  M. Ward

  Notebook, Song, Writing

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• The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world - where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Boys, Afterlife, Envy

  "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

  Albert Einstein

  Ninety Nine, Information, Gains

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• Within each piece, I create an intriguing balance between jewelry and the body, and an intensity which draws others to it.

  Sarah Richardson

  Balance, Body, Jewelry

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• No one will want a piece of us in 2009.

  Charlie Weis

  Want

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• So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, takeme a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I gotme some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised itup high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got mea tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.

  Lightnin' Hopkins

  Cutting, Guitar, Bridges

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• I will buy six pieces or so a day and just snack on them. Sometimes I wrap them up in my mini seaweed sheets.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Snacks, Six, Sometimes

  "What Chrissy Teigen Eats (Almost) Every Day" by Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.

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• The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.

  Victor LaValle

  Writing, Character, Voice

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• To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy.

  Naomi Cleaver

  Home, Design, Joy

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• Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry.

  Bobby Murcer

  Trying, Jello, Sometimes

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• I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.

  Walter Bender

  Thinking, Next, Software

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• A ceiling fixture that places a floating assembly of large pebbles below a simple modern aluminum disc. These in turn reflect each other, bouncing light between their taught bio-morphic surfaces and reflecting the environment around them. During the day, the piece acts as a sculptural object reflecting the dynamics of natural light and movement of people around them.

  Ross Lovegrove

  Simple, Light, People

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• You should only play pieces that you're willing to marry.

  Pepe Romero

  Play, Should, Willing

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• Hope is a waking dream.' I let the words echo in my head. The quote reminded me of that feeling you get when you start to wake from a dream you don't want to leave. That crushing sensation in the center of your chest, like you are losing an important piece of yourself you won't ever get back.

  Jennifer Rush

  Crush, Dream, Echoes

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• A man can stand almost any hardship by day, and be none the worse for it, provided he gets a comfortable nights rest; but without sound sleep he will soon go to pieces, no matter how gritty he may be.

  Horace Kephart

  Sleep, Night, Men

  Horace Kephart (1906). “The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilerness”

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• The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

  Cindy Sherman

  Way, Photographer, Lost

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• If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

  Ryan Reynolds

  Flannels, Montana, Pajamas

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• It's a really big struggle for me to write a song. Songs take either 30 seconds for me to write or a year or two to piece together, depending on the song and how I'm feeling on any given day. I don't really like to write music at all unless I am completely unbothered by touring.

  Adam Levine

  Song, Struggle, Writing

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• I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play -- she had a seven or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.

  Toby Keith

  Grandmother, Eight, Doors

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• I love being divorced. Every year has been better than the last. By the way, I'm not saying don't get married. If you meet somebody, fall in love and get married. Then get divorced. Because that's the best part. Divorce is forever! It really actually is. Marriage is for how long you can hack it. But divorce just gets stronger like a piece of oak. Nobody ever says 'oh, my divorce is falling apart, it's over, I can't take it.'

  Louis C. K.

  Falling In Love, Divorce, Love Is

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• I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Art, Three, Killers

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• Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.

  Adam Sandler

  Trying, One Day, Looks

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