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The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?

The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.

I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.

I've got one outlet now - music - and it's great to be able to sign someone that excites me. I'd like to also be able to do that with the scripts I get or books or TV shows... I'm not going to limit myself.

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.

Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

I didn't inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I'm crazy fortunate.

I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.

Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it

Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.

I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.

It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as.

Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.

Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore.

A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends.

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs.

I don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

Oh, definitely and you know you take the bitter with the sweet but the benefits far outweigh the burdens of what I've been able to do for my family, my word.

The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

I am privileged to be able to work for the people of Hawaii in whatever capacity.

I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.

I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.

Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

With swimming, I burn a lot of calories. I'm able to eat pretty much anything and it won't affect me. But I don't.

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening

I was able to make many different kinds of movies. They enriched me on many different levels.

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

I never want to cannibalize my act, and I'm really excited that I am going to be able to perform new material. I'm not a huge fan of repeating jokes, and I don't really do any of my old material from old stand-up acts.

Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.

The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about 'rich.' Not only am I rich from doing some of things I've been able to do, but I'm rich in spirit. I'm rich in health. I'm rich in every way possible.

As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.

I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.

You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.

I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad.

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.

I learned from my mistakes; I was able to accept the things that were my fault and to be able to grow from that. You have to be able to see growth from your experiences, and I've done that.

I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.

I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.