Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing... you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and it's usually - mostly - the first take that's the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.
‐‐ David Gilmour
Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.
‐‐ Robert Wilson
Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.
‐‐ Christine Baranski
Usually, it is not difficult to change from indoors to outdoors.
‐‐ Genzebe Dibaba
Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.
‐‐ Alcee Hastings
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
‐‐ J. L. Austin
Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!
‐‐ Sigourney Weaver
Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.
‐‐ Jerry Spinelli
Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.
‐‐ Niklaus Wirth
Usually, jet lag is not this big of an issue for me. I'm not sure why I'm so disoriented this time. It could be due to the amount of chocolate and french fries I've eaten in the last two and a half weeks.
‐‐ April Winchell
Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.
‐‐ Mark Waters
Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
‐‐ Vicente Fox
Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.
‐‐ Virginie LeDoyen
Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.
‐‐ Michael Haneke
Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
‐‐ Rachel Cohn
Usually, my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.
‐‐ Demetri Martin
Usually my ideas are small.
‐‐ Jeffrey Eugenides
Usually my ideas come from what I don't want to do, or what I find is old.
‐‐ Miuccia Prada
Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.
‐‐ Mary Ellen Mark
Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.
‐‐ Roshon Fegan
Usually, my track record's pretty good with guys on base.
‐‐ Freddie Freeman
Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'
‐‐ Mallory Ortberg
Usually, nerds on TV are completely stereotypical, like Urkel, or they're not really so nerdy.
‐‐ Jesse Plemons
Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.
‐‐ Anthony Geary
Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.
‐‐ Bill Parcells
Usually, on a show like 'Game of Thrones,' you don't have much time to rehearse; a lot of the sets are not available.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Usually, one day in a century rises above the others as an accepted turning point or historic milestone. It becomes the climactic day, or 'the day,' of that century.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley
Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.
‐‐ Anne Dudley
Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is.
‐‐ Julia Child
Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
‐‐ Gabrielle Reece
Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.
‐‐ Nhat Hanh
Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.
‐‐ Joan Lunden
Usually, people in the Islamic world set aside one-third or one-fourth of their wealth for endowment, and that will be effective only after their death. But in my case, I decided to implement this decision in my lifetime itself.
‐‐ Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
Usually people just hire me.
‐‐ Gus Van Sant
Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.
‐‐ Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.
‐‐ Rick Baker
Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life.
‐‐ Thomas Ian Nicholas
Usually pilot season is very busy, and there are lots of auditions and lots of near misses and rejections. This year, I had two auditions, landed this role and it felt like being home again.
‐‐ Melinda Clarke
Usually, somebody's size is not even in the top five things they would say about themselves. Because there's so much more going on than if they have blonde hair or are a size 12.
‐‐ Sarah Baker
Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
‐‐ Uta Hagen
Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that's how I move.
‐‐ Nonito Donaire
Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
‐‐ Cameron Russell
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
‐‐ Russell Baker
Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.
‐‐ Mark Morris
Usually, the 24-hour, high-maintenance celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality.
‐‐ Thomas Bangalter
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
‐‐ Todd Solondz
Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.
‐‐ Jesse Schell
Usually, the biggest companies are not the most dynamic.
‐‐ Tony Fadell