My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth.
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.
So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.
Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.
I hate that thing that if you are over 45, and you're going to be on telly or make films, you have to do all this stupid stuff to your face. I would no more let someone stick a needle in my forehead than fly to the moon.
Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.
Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
I put out this record on Ninja Tune called 'Florida' when I was about 22. And at the same time, I was DJ'ing and beginning to mix stuff up and promote shows in Philadelphia and New York and my own parties and make mixtapes, put out bootleg white labels.
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
I became a high school teacher for many years because it was a very tangible, concrete way where I could make a difference, and quite frankly, the kids didn't care who my father had been, because it was late '90s; none of them were around or remembered my father.
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'
I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.
You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women.
I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.
I don't like most Christmas movies. They're pretty bad, though they seem to make tons of money anyway. Like this movie 'Elf,' I got the script for that, and I turned it down right away. Against my wife's better judgment.
I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.
I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.
Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.
America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.
The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.
They did is sent me down Clearwater, Florida, and they said to me, Jessica, I need you to make Jim Bakker feel better.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.
All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact.
We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen.
Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
Every role is a potential lover. I ask: Are they someone I want to wake up to in the morning and go to bed with at night? Do they question my assumptions about life? Consume me to distraction? Make my cry, then clown to make me laugh again? If I say yes, then it's all I need.
When you're down on yourself, and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you're not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, belligerently putting yourself forward.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
