As an actor, Coppola trained me. That was my training ground.
It takes a long time for things to get off the ground.
No ground gained was ever relinquished.
Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.
A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say.
I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.
Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.
I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.
When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.
We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves.
I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.
Some of the worst selfies I've ever seen are at Auschwitz or Ground Zero.
When there's not ten feet of snow on the ground, I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, 'Hey, dummy,' or 'Hey, Mayhem.'
I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
I keep my feet on the ground because of my roots and the way I was raised.
We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.
If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Look, half the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were either in debt or bankrupt. The remaining half, most of them lost all their possessions. The only reason Monticello didn't get burned to the ground was that the British patrol missed the road.
It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!
I just didn't like the idea of doing reunions, period. I could only see it as I'd just be going over the same old ground. I'm only years older and fatter and I'll just do an older, fatter version of me.
We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.
As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.
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.
I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
The move into K-1 was very big at the time. It was very special to me. I liked it. It was different. It was only striking, no ground, so it kinda changed my fight style a little bit.
We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.
And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.
The lack of societal and institutional safeguards provides fertile ground for populist movements fueled by fear.
