#picked

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it. ↗

— Julius Erving

#age #basketball #because #difficulty #eight

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#because #countless #dare #freedom #know

I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all. ↗

— Dwight Gooden

#better chance #chance #decided #drafted #even

If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#album #get #how #making #might

About 200 girls went into a room and there were two casting agents and they asked you to say your name and where you came from and then they picked two or three out of that. And they sent you into a room and I was really nervous and kept dropping things and I was going the wrong way and everything. Then she gave us a script and you had to learn it. ↗

— Evanna Lynch

#agents #asked #came #casting #dropping

Well... Actually I got picked because I was the only one who fit the wedding gown - they had my size. ↗

— Kevin McDonald

#because #fit #got #gown #had

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#amy #apart #choruses #favourite #find

But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that. ↗

— Lisa See

#big #book #books #bought #cambodia

Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#all day #day #four #get #go

We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#best #done #good #got #i