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Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business. -- Chuck Barris
I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking. -- Osric Chau
It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life. -- Randy Quaid
The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution. -- Scott Cook
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The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more. -- Tan Le
I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life. -- Dick Dale
The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality. -- Ma Jian
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. -- Raymond Chandler
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Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more than just the one facet that television played on. -- Toni Tennille
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant. -- Vikram Seth
The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure. -- Alice Miller
There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that. -- Paul Weller
I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct. -- Jim Parsons
Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new. -- Emanuel Celler
Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting. -- Pat Summerall
I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process. -- Brian Ferneyhough
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality. -- Yo-Yo Ma
Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual. -- Karen Kingsbury
I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion. -- Nina Garcia
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. -- Pope Paul VI
I do think it's perfectly natural and human to want to invest belief in something. It's just a facet of who we are. What do I believe in? I believe in the obvious things. The people I'm close to and my work - it's not complicated. -- Dylan Moran
I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think this attitude verges on the immoral, like thinking that slavery is an unalterable facet of the human condition so why bother doing anything about it? -- Alex Tabarrok
Historically and culturally, New York City and our entire nation simply would not be the same without the infusion of Asian traditions. Whether it is food, art, language or any other facet of cultural life, Asian Americans have made our city and our country stronger and richer. -- Nydia Velazquez
The Saving Our Cinderellas program is a facet of Saving Our Daughters which is more specifically geared towards using music, theatre, film and television as a means to help build self-esteem in our girls by developing programs that allow them to discover, explore and express their individuality using the arts. -- Grace Gealey
We were outplayed in every facet of the game -- Michael Clarke
In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love. -- Jack Kornfield
The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution. -- Scott Cook
In any facet of life, your potential is always equal to the strength of your desire. -- Tom Hackett
There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action. -- Millicent Fenwick
I look at myself as a game-changer, and I try to make that a facet of my game. -- Lawrence Timmons
Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire. -- Nathan Eldon Tanner
Because I have no actual sisters, it is my friends from Ames who've exposed me to every facet of womanhood. -- Jeffrey Zaslow
I find each project, although it's compartmentalized, informs me in some facet. I wake up everyday wanting to be informed. -- Ryan Seacrest
Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life. -- Anton Chekhov
I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means. -- Linus Torvalds
A man with deep far-sightedness will survey both the beginning and the end of a situation and continually consider its every facet as important. -- Takeda Shingen
Looking at the creative process is like looking into a crystal: no matter which facet we gaze into, we see all the others reflected. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Religion is such a medieval idea. Don't get me started. I have thought about every facet of religion, and I can't buy any of it. -- Phyllis Diller
The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it. -- Criss Jami
I just want to use all of myself, for the rest of my life, in every facet of my life, as long as I live. -- Maria Bello
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact â?¦ the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard. -- William Carlos Williams
Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy. -- Adam Fletcher
I do not believe in meaningless coincidences. I believe every coincidence is a message, a clue about a particular facet of our lives that requires our attention. -- Deepak Chopra
A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact. -- George Will
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world. -- H. G. Wells
A movie is a diamond and suddenly someone is seeing this facet or that facet. No matter how good you think you are, there's stuff you're not seeing. -- Fred Schepisi
Why are we trying to measure social media like a traditional channel anyway? Social media touches every facet of business and is more an extension of good business ethics. -- Erik Qualman
The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction. -- Gerry Spence
How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to surprise oneself with an ugly bit of ego. -- Ellen Hopkins
If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me. -- Bill Walsh
I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of. -- Nicholas Stoller
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant." -- Vikram Seth
Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen. -- Pope John Paul II
You are going to love some of your characters because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason. -- Anne Lamott
Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you. -- Jack Kornfield
The need to engage businesses and decision makers with customers can only increase in importance, and as it does, the market research industry must recognise that engagement is a facet of what we do. -- Alex Johnston
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