Sentences with phrase «life characters living»

Cult movies, kids» movies or Hollywood blockbusters; they're all filled with larger than life characters living fantasy lives.

Not exact matches

«I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives,» Dias said at Forbes» Women Summit in New York City last year.

«We want to use the phone to create iconic characters, but just like Marvel, we believe our characters can live forever,» says Davis, who is 26.

As the book's main character, a young Circle employee named Mae, sinks deeper into company life, she becomes less and less attuned to the real people around her.

That «I think I can do it» is key — Musk's gut level faith in his ability to achieve any goal, and overcome any obstacle, is one of the most important aspects of his character that has made him a larger - than - life innovator.

Without character running through your veins as the source of your decision - making process, and without integrity as your internal GPS system navigating you through life, you're going to eventually fail.

When paired onscreen with actors living fully in the present — playing characters who are defined by their relationship with the lead rather than by their own complicated backstories — DiCaprio is again made to suffer.

Curiosity is good for us too: Happiness guru Martin Seligman identifies it as a key character strength that can enhance life satisfaction.»

Films like J. Edgar and The Aviator (for which he got a Leading Role nomination) require him to play a single character through many stages of his life, never allowing the actor to fully inhabit characters at a single point in time.

An animated emoji that will use the front - facing camera to measure your face, animate your favourite emojis into life - like characters, and record a short clip for text messaging.

While Colbert's Late Show has consistently ranked second in the ratings behind NBC's The Tonight Show, Monday night's live return of both Stewart and the Colbert Report character did manage to boost the show's ratings for at least one night.

If you're looking for more reading material about the Trump White House and its rotating cast of characters, here's a quick guide to some books already published and yet to come in 2018 — some of which might seem like beach or airport reads until you remember the reports are rooted in real life.

So to hear Rae talk about standing up to a room full of network execs, her new bosses, and fight for two insecure black characters who have messy lives and are fully realized as complex characters?

The augmented reality game from Japan's Nintendo (ntdoy), where players walk around real - life neighborhoods to hunt down virtual cartoon characters on their smartphone screens, has more than 65 million users in the United States just seven days after launch.

Dissemination areas don't necessarily reflect the facts on the ground when it comes to how neighbourhoods are understood by the people who live there; these artificial boundaries can't encompass the spirit and character that animates a great neighbourhood — but they can highlight the areas where wealth is most concentrated.

«Several unromantic dinners with my girlfriend were spent with her in character, telling me stories about her life as a Nebraska farmer... which I then recalled for her over dessert.»

The online environment offers an opportunity to extend a character's fantasy life.

In the George Lucas movie, THX - 1138 (the name of the main character was «THX - 1138 ″) everyone's choices are removed and they all live underground because above ground is «radioactive».

The convention centre's 720,000 square feet were packed with elaborate exhibits for giants such as Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, featuring enough futuristic tech gadgetry, life - sized game character reproductions and leather - clad «booth babes» to make any gamer's head explode.

«Hamilton» might be about statesmen that lived and died over 200 years ago, but the musical is so accessible that it's easy to relate to its characters and ideas.

In Jon Acuff's Do Over: Make Today the First Day of Your New Career, Acuff seeks to help his readers develop four important areas of their lives: relationships, skills, character and hustle.

A behind - the - scenes clip from Industrial Light & Magic reveals how this character was brought to life.

The Brisbane Baylands project has received sharp criticism from people living in Brisbane, who don't want to see an influx of tech workers change the character of their neighborhoods.

Since last summer, they have been the main characters of DC Cupcakes, the first reality show all about daily life in the cupcake business.

Some stories have characters with whom we don't personally relate, but they remind us of others in our lives.

When we answer a few simple questions to let our friends and family know which Muppet character we're the most like or which car we'd drive if we had our pick, we're sharing a digital piece of our analog lives.

Now in a two - hour movie, you get a handful of character - defining moments, but in real life, you face them every day.

Empathic people trust that kindness will get them further in life than other human character trait.

The main character, Gordon Gekko, who is loosely patterned after Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, lives his life under the belief that greed is good and money is everything.

I imagine that I'm a character from the movie Mad Max: Fury Road, chanting in my head, «I live, I die, I live again.»

When you have information like that, it somehow brings the character more immediately to life.

Despite a real - life narrative stuffed with secrets and suspense, the film version quickly feels bloated as Stone treats us to scene after scene of Snowden struggling with his inner dilemma and, especially, with his devoted girlfriend, Lindsay, who is a major character in her own right.

Spielberg still gives us his baseline theme that is in almost all of his movies: the main character's troubled family life.

«We all are human, we all have weaknesses... I think when you look at a struggle in your life, just know that's just an opportunity for your character to grow.

With 4K, video game characters on the Xbox One X seem far more life - like.

They've used their 140 characters to comment, trash talk, and live tweet.

How this applies to corporate life: So much of what we are able to achieve comes from our ability to carry forward good character traits and strength of mind.

Despite the adoring crowds, motivational speaking can be a lonely existence — one reason it suited George Clooney's Up in the Air character, whose stump speech was about unloading people from your life.

So maybe Ford took some chances, creating spots in which McConaughey just kind of meanderingly freestyles his way through various quasi-philosophical musings about Lincoln and the meaning of life (it's all been compared to his «True Detective» character).

On the downside, the previous account holder had already posted dozens of questionable tweets, some comical («Best years of my life my ass»), some typed in Russian characters, and some that equated to panhandling («Follow me, please!»).

Another group is recognizing that these brands are an important pop culture phenomenon and are developing toys that bring these virtual characters and games to life in the real world.

Robinson's memoir, A Game of Character, documents the lessons he learned from his working - class parents growing up on Chicago's South Side, and how he's applied them in life and in basketball.

It is instead a dense and compelling character study of an innovator whose determination to change the world with products led him to spurn many of the closest people in his life.

Some of the classes teach them about business, some about life; they range from MBA - style instruction to character and parent education.

The leather will grow softer and more personalized with character as the years pass, and the shearling will continue to feel soft and lived - in.

That was the daily affirmation of Stuart Smalley, Al Franken's defining character (you know, before he became a U.S. Senator) from Saturday Night Live's 1991 season.

We created the characters and the stories to reflect «small - dose» actions in everyday life.

We now live in a world where you are a 140 characters away from destroying your reputation.

In an episode of 30 Rock broadcast live in 2010, attention - seeking sketch comedian Tracy Jordan (played by Tracy Morgan) catches some reruns of The Carol Burnett Show and decides to start mimicking its tendency for characters to «break» — that is, succumb involuntarily to laughter on - screen — on purpose.

Character assassination is part of rejecting reality as a basis for action, but it has a life of its own and is very old.