#picked

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

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#before #began #bookstore #came #composing

I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain. ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#being #britain #coming #different #different parts

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#create #just #picked #rattle #shake

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

You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows. ↗

— Paul Guilfoyle

#comedy #comes #deficit #dramas #expensive

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#army #because #college #first #go

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on. ↗

— Andrew J. Bacevich

#being #going #knowing #much #our

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#give #give me #golf #good #i