The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.
I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.
Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.
I've decided to become gay, not in a sexual way, but I am going to start picking up around the house.
You can't get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.
Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time.
Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word "beautiful.
I hate saying that youth is wasted on the young since it's so f**king stupid, but I think you realize if you're fortunate enough to realize what you have, you don't want to sleep as much or squander any time. It's weird, but early in your career you don't stop to smell the roses since you're too busy picking them.
My all-time favorite interception was picking off Peyton Manning back in 2007, the one-hander down the sideline.
David Duchovny asked me while I was picking out shoes in the closet. It wasn't a special occasion. He just asked, 'Will you marry me?'
Cooking brings me so much joy. I love everything, down to the execution of the plate to picking out fresh ingredients at the market. It makes me deeply grateful and aware of where our food comes from and how feeding people is another way of saying, "I love you. "
When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?
It's very important to me, who I play with and the same about picking a crew of people.
I'm not out there picking out every single item that we sell, and also we don't even make every single item that we sell.
Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.
There's this Ryan Gosling quote that I steal all the time - I watched an interview with him in Cannes - and he said picking roles is like listening to songs on the radio: There can be a lot of really great songs in a row, but then one comes on that just makes you want to dance.
Picking the team isn't difficult, it's who to leave out.
My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.