#honed

We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#around #big #cell #cell phones #come

The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#did #everything #experience #honed #i

We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company. ↗

— David Crane

#because #company #could #craft #developed

I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#between #daniel #feel #film #fully

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor. ↗

— Charles Dance

#i #number #phoned #please #said

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed. ↗

— Anita Desai

#day #effort #every #every day #honed

We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers. ↗

— Pat Williams

#cheerleaders #cheers #home #last #last year

If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#capable #down #every #favorite #fraction

It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach. ↗

— Ronald Harwood

#approach #back #down #generally #him

In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform 'Oh Jean.' ↗

— Billy Boyd

#crowe #fact #go #guitar #had