Holly Hunter

I think that, initially, I was most passionate about music and particularly about playing the piano. I started playing when I was nine, and I was obsessed with it, really. I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent to be able to play the piano professionally.

American Actress

Jean Stapleton

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.

English Actor

Gail Simone

I always say, if a guy writes the same lead female character type over and over, we are not seeing their writing chops so much as their dating website wishlist.

American Writer

Iliza Shlesinger

I have the comedic chops and intelligence to raise points and discuss both sides of whatever is on our mind as a society.

American Comedian

Kristin Scott Thomas

I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.

English Actress

Freddie Hubbard

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

American Musician

Michelle Ryan

I adore water, so it would be a real adventure to visit the Amazon before they chop down all the trees.

Andy Serkis

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

Kemp Muhl

When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops.

American Singer

Emphasizes the use of physical force or effort to cut something.

Physical Action

Used for more than food; anything requiring similar cutting action.

Not Just Kitchen

Often implies a quick or vigorous action, not necessarily careful or precise.

Action Speed

Refers to delivering a sharp and typically powerful strike or hit.

Physical Impact

Chop indicates using a handheld weapon or tool; not unarmed.

Weapon Implication

The action typically results in a loud sound upon impact.

Audible Result

A cut of meat, with bone attached, from specific animals, usually eaten as a meal.

Culinary Term

Chops can vary in size and thickness; some are made for single servings.

Size Variation

Used metaphorically for someone often changing decisions or directions.

Indecisiveness

Requires skillful technique in sports to control the ball's movement.

Sporting Precision

Produces a change in the ball's trajectory, often making it difficult to return.

Ball Deflection

 I chopped his head off. And that was the most compassionate thing I could do." If you get all those parts aligned, yes I think you could probably be feeling the emotion of love. But again, then we have to talk about well-being in a larger context. It's all of us in this together,

Science can answer moral...

 way of life it's a special feeling when you've got your food and you're betting on a mountain that you can see right out the window while you're in your cabin that's what subsistence living is it's just nice just like doing the dishes it's like chopping firewood working on a

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 From there, I was sent to another small room with a really nice lady who asked me all kinds of questions about my life at home. I saw no reason to lie. As far as I was concerned, life was pretty good. I told her, whenever I'm sad, my grandmother gives me karate chops.

"To This Day" ... for...

 everything she has to say. Mixed in with chirping sonatas from high above is the constant thud of a machete chopping trees. Shakira's habitat in Colombia is being cut down, piece by piece, and if we don't work to protect the critically endangered cotton-top tamarin,

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 The point is to use factual knowledge to convince the audience, as in Sojourner Truth's argument for women's "I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed

How to use rhetoric to...

 We spent long hours talking about theology and Judaism and life while we washed dishes in their kosher kitchen and chopped vegetables for dinner. They treated us like family. They held nothing against us, and again I was astonished.

I grew up in the...

 If he doesn't, he'll be for the chop. They try to clip his wings so he'll fit through the nest entrance. But he cooperates. Using spikes at the end of his abdomen, he pulls one off himself.

Queen Ant Mating Season...

 glittering cities and snow-capped mountains— rejecting many men along the way. Eventually, Savitri ventured deep into the jungle, where she met a young man chopping wood.

Savitri and Satyavan:...

 To this machine that helps me chop vegetables. I'm not an engineer. I did not study engineering in school. But I was a super ambitious student growing up.

Why you should make...

 and then what you want to do what we want to do is want to chop up some till we're gonna chop up some deal we're gonna sprinkle it all over all salmon

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