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He'd knock over bits of the set because he couldn't really see, ... He had the 8-pound head on.

He exists in the public mind as bits and pieces of his characters-Butch Cassidy's charm, Ben Quick's machismo, Cool Hand Luke's defiance, Harper's irony, Hud's disdain.

My Roman girlfriend translates bits from Italian into English. It is sublime.

little bits here and there from people who hear my story.

Someone going by could have seen a very tempting, elderly, potential victim. We're looking for more information. We know from other cases that it's those little bits of information that can make a difference.

Just because technology exists where you can duplicate something, that doesn't give you the right to do it. There's nothing wrong with giving some tracks away or bits of stuff that's fine. But it's not everybody's right. Once I record something, it's not public domain to give it away freely.

It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.

I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.

I think the fact that the election is so close is having an effect on the Dow. It's (the race) so close here that little bits of nuances like a 24-year-old story on George W. Bush is having an effect on stocks.

It is a real mystery. You can only put together little bits and pieces. There are things I know, things I believe to be true, but I can't prove them.

I think Adam is a top driver who just needs to polish off a few little bits and pieces here and there. But he's a joy to work with, and he's just as quick as the best of them. In this category at the moment, you have to make sure that every little thing is alright on the night and I think, for the first season, he has done exceptionally well. Generally, his performances have been much stronger than drivers with a larger budget. Adam has got what it takes to be a Formula One driver.

Over the years -- 15, 16 years -- we've picked up all sorts of bits and pieces, ... And normally when we make an album we load a van up and deliver it all: old Wurlitzers, odd synthesizers and things.

Over the years, 15, 16 years, we've picked up all sorts of bits and pieces, ... And normally when we make an album we load a van up and deliver it all: old Wurlitzers, odd synthesizers and things.

Items are sent in for the auction from all over the world and people bring them with them when they come for the convention. Often they are selling things so that they buy other bits and pieces and keep collecting.

I think of my drawing style like handwriting: it's a mix of whatever handwriting you're born with, plus bits and pieces you've pilfered from other people around you.

Keeping the bits is not enough - you need to be able to recreate from them something that readers in decades and centuries to come will be able to use.

I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I'm going to have some books, some I haven't finished or haven't read, some feathers and nice bits and pieces, the odd note. Just on the journey for the next bit.

I think it is pretty cool. It's a nice vision of the future. It takes images beyond ? to take advantage of the bits and bytes.

I thought we still had opportunities. We got bits and pieces, but we didn't get the whole package.

I was never a huge 007 fan, but I sure liked Sean Connery. I'm sure Pierce Brosnan is good and has his moments, but I've not seen him; I've only seen bits and pieces on TV, so I can't really judge. Pierce looks very natural in the role.

I wasn't lighting matches or anything. I was doing all the bits of other work and stayed clear of the big burner.

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.

TYPE, n. Pestilent bits of metal suspected of destroying civilization and enlightenment, despite their obvious agency in this incomparable dictionary.

You have several intelligence services so that you take several different looks at bits of information.

Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.

We are doing a little bit of old Oregon Duck football, a little bit of Utah, Bowling Green, Northwestern, a little bit of BYU, Texas Tech passing game from years past, and rolled it all into something we are calling the new Oregon offense. It is something that has been bits and pieces that has been on my desk for about 21/2 years now, and now I kick myself because I think I should have done it sooner.

We're really just looking at the lower end of the quality spectrum. For the most part the (deals are) like the little bits of popcorn left at the bottom of the pan - the half-kernels that didn't pop.

We found bits and pieces on the surface, and knew we'd found something -- we just didn't know what it was. We had a sense there were a couple of sites that could produce significant scientific information.

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

We're all trying to find out as much as we possibly can. There have been lots of bits and pieces but nothing substantial to find out what's really happening. We want to find out what's going on before we make any announcements.

Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.

When people censor themselves they're just as likely to get rid of the good bits as the bad bits.

There are some little bits falling off the edge, small things, that may ultimately have an influence on the industry.

I'm a bit of a tomboy.

I borrow bits from everyone.

I can do a little bit of everything, I'd like to think.

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

There are vehicles lying around, bodies lying around, and there are bits of bodies around me,

Because we're watching so many movies and are consumed by so many stories, science fiction lets you do something a bit fresh and that hasn't been seen before.

I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.

The show is probably 60 percent improvising and 40 percent not. So there's quite a bit of it that we do have prepared and that part of it, you have memorized and you've rehearsed and you're prepared, just like any show.

I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

I'm always a bit shy around evil people...

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.

We have made Dean aware of the situation and there are other bits and pieces to the deal tied in, so we will see what develops.

This work is done in bits and pieces across the country. There?s an opportunity now to integrate the services.

Trading is relatively thin with the Christmas holidays and there are bits and pieces of news but not much positive.

We're not really sure if he knows why he did it. He only remembers bits and pieces of that day.

There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage.

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

Back then, Lisa Lisa was somebody that I liked. She was Puerto Rican, and I related to her somewhat. I was a little bit of a fan.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.

I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.

I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

I love having music just to chill to and also to rev me up a bit.

When they circumcised Herbert Samuel they threw away the wrong bit

I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.

We saw bits and pieces. But it was weird to watch. I mean, we've seen him before!

We knew that all the protein-coding bits of genes do is to produce protein - they have to have instructions to turn them on and off. Those sequences lie well outside the protein-coding sequences, sometimes thousands, tens of thousands of bases away.

Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier").

I've always been a bit flip.

I can say with confidence I know a fair bit about LSD.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

I'm a bit of a hippie.

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

To be sure it's time, share some little bits of information, such as 'my previous relationship ended very badly' and see how your new partner responds. If he or she is sympathetic, share a few more details.

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.

I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. Its something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!

In the beginning was the word, but it wasn't a fixed number of bits.

The least little bit can do so much.

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.

It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone who is in the industry. So, they don't let on that they recognize you, that's what I've found out.

With the little bits I have, no. I'm not concerned about that one bit. I'm more concerned with helping the process and making sure everything comes to the front.

We're just hauling out the last bits of debris.

When you tear out insulation from the wall or something like that and it comes out in bits and pieces all you do is tear it all out.

There are some groups who say that Firestone's tire recall should be expanded. They offer small bits of information but lack the complete picture. These kinds of suggestions will make the situation worse.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

We believe that there's a great deal of fantastic innovation that will occur above the embedded layer and below the system management layer. There's a lot of really interesting enterprise-class operating system work we believe will be appealing to OEM customers even though they may be the shipping open-source bits as a foundation layer.

We've all got lots of different influences. We never sit down to write a song and say, 'This is going to be a Brian Eno type of song,' or 'This is a Bob Dylan song.' It's totally little bits of lots of different stuff that come together and hopefully it's something coming out of us that we're creating.

Because I had to do everything in bits and pieces, I was never quite satisfied when I finished a solo album or a soundtrack because I knew I could have done them better if I could have focused on them 100% until they were done.

Bill Roberts has worked for British Swimming on child protection issues and on working with vulnerable adults, and both those bits of work are ongoing. I couldn't discuss his contract.

DR was definitely the front man but we needed a guy that was there 24-7 for the team and not doing other bits and pieces as well. Nick is doing a fantastic job, for me everyone is a lot closer. There is definitely a good spirit.

Video is hard to discover on the Internet. Web pages are self-describing. Video is opaque; it is a bucket of bits and doesn't tell you much about itself.

What we are really looking to do here is not just tinker around the edges, but to deliver a comprehensive solution that addresses employers' needs, ... There are a lot of players out there that do bits and pieces of what Jobster does, but Jobster is the only one that has put it all together into one package.

As I see it, the most effective way to do this is frankly to accept these historical tales for what they are now known to be - folklore - and treat them in such a fashion that the realistic-minded, sophisticated people of our generation accept them... I sincerely hope that this painting will help reawaken interest in the cherry tree tale and other bits of American folklore that are too good to lose.

At the time it was making all these crazy short bits of entertainment, the things that ran between videos. They were just these wildly creative labs for people who had gone to art and film school. There were no rules and there were no clients; it was a really free and exciting environment.

While there may have been other bits of information or intelligence that would say, 'Whoa, wait a minute, we need to stop the train,' it never really stopped,

To deliver TV or DVD quality IPTV content, we need bandwidth of three to four mega bits per second (mbps) but the maximum bandwidth available in China is one mbps. So infrastructure has been a problem as well.

I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.' Some of that 'junk' is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling 'junk' in the '60s people wouldn't call 'junk' now.

I spent years doing 'Star Trek' bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of people mocked it.

When I wok up in intensive care after almost three weeks unconscious, I only realized how serious my injuries were when I saw my hands and feet were black. Then I put two and two together. . . . I'm definitely going to lose bits of my fingers and toes. And they say I could be in here for another six months.

We've got to bring it all together in one game, instead of doing bits and pieces. We need to start learning to read each other better, what each other is capable of, how to pass to certain people, where they like to catch it. That's something that just kind of comes. It's not something you can work on. You've just got to be able to read people better.

I've seen bits and pieces. I've been following it but I haven't been able to watch any full games.