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"When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows."
"Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I’m about because you know better than that."
"I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else’s property."
"Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction."
"Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers."
"A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself."
"My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City."
"Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming."
"If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light."
"What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?"
"Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach."
"Every Bass Communion track is based on a single sound source. Increasingly I find that I'm really interested in taking a particular sound and it's almost like solving a problem. If I have a sound, the problem is how can I create a piece of music from this one sound source?"
"Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them."
"In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him [Wally Pfister]. I didn't see any virgin blather in screen direction, or anything like that. It was just a wonderfully executed piece, and a complicated one. The mathematics involved in putting this film together, between Jack and Wally, and the great support of Alcon, it was not a easy little operetta."
"One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product."
"We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all."
"I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?"
"You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn't it popular?"
"We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it."
"Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost."
