#picked

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#aids #apart #because #change #characters

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#guitar #hadn #i #king #link

Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup. ↗

— Dreama Walker

#family #finding #got #hearing #lineup

If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me. ↗

— Jayson Williams

#beer #bottle #career #changed #definitely

We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#did #few #genuine #just #organic

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#day #education #just #off #picked

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#cover #covers #i #more #picked

I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#butter #couple #films #find #fine

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. ↗

— John Gunther

#city #comparison #copy #crime #crooks

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#electric #electric guitar #got #guitar #i