If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.
I hope I never have to pick between all these things I get to do.
Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.
NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.
If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'
Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next year and we'll all agree not to go anywhere for seven days.
My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it.
I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.
Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.
One day I was asked to pick up $50,000 worth of gold chains for Mr. T. For real!
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.
Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look.
Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.
When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.
The conscious mind can only pay attention to about four things at once. If you've got these nagging voices in your head telling you to remember to pick up the laundry and call so-and-so, they're competing in your brain for neural resources with the stuff you're actually trying to do, like getting your work done.
When I got into songs like 'Exist,' I was like, 'Okay, this riff has some bass sweeping in it, I'm definitely going to have to use a pick... but I guess I'll have to learn how to sweep first!'
Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
I have a giant baking book, so I close my eyes and pick a random page. Whatever it is, I try to bake it!
You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.
There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.
If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
The 'sent' folder of my email program is really my biggest inspiration and my biggest source of lyrics. That's where I go to pick up a lot of the lyrics that I'm writing.
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.
If we can inspire a kid to pick up a guitar - and less and less kids are doing so these days - it'd be really cool because I know how it felt growing up and how special that was for me.
I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from other players or watch some video and see what kind of move would work in the same situation.
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
