They said my voice was terrible, nervous, and spotty and that I must go away and learn how to use it properly. I must admit I was rather agape, since I had never thought about making my voice better.
In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
I've been rewritten on past projects and thought, 'That's not what she was - she was this really powerful woman, and there's nothing wrong with that.' I'm going to keep writing them, and hopefully people will start making them.
I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.
Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.
I did enjoy theater. I actually do prefer making films and television, but it was a learning experience for me, because I got into television at 5 and film at 11, and theater was something I completely bypassed.
We have to take a really close look at making sure that we are more surgical and more tailored in dealing with the production community and our producing partners.
We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.
I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at your words later, you wonder, 'Did I really mean that, or am I just making verbal patterns?'
It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.
F1 is giving penalties for people making mistakes instead of for people driving dirty. And that is wrong. Mistakes happen. You run into each other: that's life, that's racing, and too bad.
The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with.
If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.
When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
In a lot of my films, the biggest theme is family, making families out of those around you.
A lot of the people that stop you - well, they're not nuts, exactly. They're more like super-fans. They think that I'm some sort of rich guy, that everyone in the movies is making the kind of money Angelina Jolie is making. They don't realize that most of my life has been a struggle.
I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.
I'm not a confrontational person in real life, so I really don't wanna get into arguments or fistfights with people I'm making fun of.
Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.
I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.
Making sure that people have access to preventive medicine for the first time ever as a nation? That's a big deal.
I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
As a recording engineer - someone who is deeply embroiled in the process of making records every day - you see trends and fads run through the social organization of the population of musicians in the same way that they would run through a high school.
Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.
I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?
I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.
