A lot of my pieces are about easy seductiveness and accessibility in terms of showing skin. – Joseph Altuzarra
I’d like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they’re not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters. – Martin Scorsese
Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a six-lane highway during rush hour in downtown Los Angeles. – Lyall Watson
There are several kinds of land on reservations. And all of these pieces of land have different entities who are in charge of enforcing laws on this land. – Louise Erdrich
Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it. – John Corigliano
I’ve been fascinated with all kinds of weapons my whole life, and as I have been able to afford to acquire pieces, here and there I started to collect. – Joe Perry
The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like. – Lara St. John
It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces. – Lewis Thomas
I’m one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start. – Jeremy Denk
I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria. – Karlheinz Stockhausen
‘Dune’ was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but ‘Blue Velvet’ was a very sleek, compact little experience. – Kyle MacLachlan
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again. – Jean Renoir
Collections aren’t really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection. – Lydia Davis
Spaghetti… I can’t eat spaghetti, there’s too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I’ll have 1,000 pieces of noodles. – Mitch Hedberg
A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces. – Kenneth Grahame
I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for ‘The Irish Times.’ – Kevin Barry
Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie – in Alabama – Dixie is slipping. They’ve stopped using the word in commercial listings. – John Shelton Reed
For my wardrobe, I like to invest in classic pieces and pair them with more trendy new pieces and accessories each season. – Liya Kebede
At any one time, I’ll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all. – Richard MacDonald
Suprisingly, one of the most complex pieces of code is the code to determine where a note is in the staff. Finale stores notes as relative scale positions in the current key. – Robert Patterson
There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation. – Rob Woodall
Writing is like sewing together what I call these ‘buttons,’ these bits and pieces. – Sandra Cisneros