The more you work in this business as a comedian, the closer you get to just being yourself onstage, on camera, the more well received you are.
One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.
When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.
I've always been very ambitious, and I always knew that I wanted something else. Cuba was a good start, but I knew I wasn't going to develop a real career, and I wanted to get closer to filmmakers that I wanted to work with.
The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.
I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.
I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
By turning from the surface, one comes closer to the inner laws of matter, which are also the laws of the Spirit.
Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
I have a very pessimistic view that every win takes you closer to a loss because no-one in the world can keep on winning forever.
I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.
Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.
Israeli society is comprised of four principal tribes growing closer in size.
The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
My first call is always to my dad. It's really rad. What had initially drove my dad and me apart - all my stunts and antics - has brought us together, closer than we've ever been. My dad's been a huge part of my team.
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
The people I'm inspired by and I listen to are all ballsy, and I feel like I'm closer to an artist when they're open and honest.
Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.
Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.
So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.
A protracted legislative fight will not move us closer to where the music industry wants to be - delivering music to fans through a variety of different, innovative Web sites.
My favorite movie is 'Closer' and 'Love Story.'
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.