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I didn`t stay in a popular vein. I never really got stamped like that. I worked very hard to keep changing my image.

- Nick Nolte

I`m limited, so, I kind of know where I fit as an actress. I kind of get it now, finally, after all of these years of trying to be a dramatic actress. I kind of think that`d I`d like to continue dealing with these things in a funny, lighter vein, but also truthful and honest.

- Diane Keaton

The devil is seductive, and so guns are glorious in the culture. I understand there`s a case to be made. For instance, Spike Lee said something like this, that you can`t have a scene with drugs in a film that doesn`t secretly make you want to do drugs. In the same vein, it`s hard to make a movie that`s anti-violence because the very nature of photographing violence eroticises it. But I`m not so sold that that`s true.

- Ethan Hawke

That`s why those fellas were so magnificent playing the same part, because they`d played it forty times. That`s why John Wayne finally became a good actor in True Grit (1969) - he`s got 150 of them behind him. Now he`s developed a saltiness and an earthiness and a humor and a subtlety that comes from mining that same vein over and over again.

- Gregory Peck

(on John Wayne) That`s why John Wayne finally became a good actor in "True Grit": he`s got 150 films behind him. Now he`s developed a saltiness and an earthiness and a humor and a subtlety that comes from mining that same vein over and over and over again.

- Gregory Peck

You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else`s style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

- Janet Jackson

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That`s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

- Mike Nichols

Depth and angle are the critical issues for vessel detection. Even if you locate a vein at the skin`s surface, it`s still easy to miss when you try to insert a needle into the tissue below.

- Michael Gray

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

- Richard Marx

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I`m not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

- Jim Jarmusch

It`s in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it`s not retro at all. But it is very pop.

- Steve Brown

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people`s civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it`s fiction or non-fiction.

- Iris Chang

In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.

- Alberto Mancini

The doctor punched my vein,The captain called me Cain, Upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

- Allen J. Ellender

He had to come here while negotiations were ongoing. The Hudson was the jugular vein of the Revolution,

- Arthur Schnabel

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

- Thomas Carlyle