"I thought my Jesus Piece was so harmless 'Till I see a picture of a shorty armless"
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"As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on."
"Because we are a conglomerate of our experiences - you take away any experience and you take away a piece of identity. You take away a piece of identity and we don't really know who we are."
"If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good."
"Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent."
"A piece of the miracle process has been reserved for each of us"
"I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time."
"Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole."
"The only reason I became a writer was so I could exist on a piece of paper."
"Everything comes from a weird place that I don't understand. I make a piece of art just to prove that I exist in my own way. And I can't make something nice. I have to make something that makes me uncomfortable."
"Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth."
"Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark."
"Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured."
"I'm more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It's just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else."
"you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece"
"Note that there was no claim for these attacks [on 9/11]. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror."
"This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these attacks. There were no demands. There were no statements. It was a silent piece of terror. This was part of nothing."
"The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states."
"There's nothing like a nice piece of hickory."
"An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart."