Viola Davis

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

American Actress

Alan Rickman

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

British Actor

Mel Gibson

It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.

Actor

Noma Dumezweni

I'm a great company actor, a great supporting actor. I serve the piece.

English Actress

George Harrison

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

British Musician

Giles Deacon

It's important to offer well-thought-out pieces at lower prices.

British Designer

Randy Pausch

I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.

American Educator

Slowthai

English Musician

Lady Gaga

American Singer

Jada Pinkett Smith

Use 'piece' when referring to something that can be counted or measured.

Quantifiable Use

'Piece' can refer to abstract parts of a whole, like time or information.

Not Always Physical

'Piece' often describes an individual work of writing, music, or art.

Creative Works

Describing someone as a 'piece' can be derogatory and is often disrespectful.

Considered Offensive

When talking about coins, 'piece' specifies that it is a single unit of currency.

Money Specific

In the arts, 'piece' refers to a complete work, not just a part of it.

Artistic Context

'Piece' is slang for a gun, so be aware of cultural and violent associations.

Slang Usage

 Imagine that you're a crow. Here's your food in a deep hole. How would you go about, with the tools available to you on this table, solving this problem? The bird's tool kit includes a short stick hanging on a piece of string, three stones inside wooden cages, and a longer stick trapped in a plastic box.

Are Crows the Ultimate...

 probably learned their lines from a script, which essentially tells them what to say and when to say it. A piece of written music operates on exactly the same principle. In a very basic sense, it tells a performer what to play and when to play it. Aesthetically speaking, there's a world of difference

How to read music - Tim...

 the fact that we think and dream and ask these questions might yet turn out to be one of the most important facts about the universe. And I have one more piece of good news for you. The quest for knowledge and understanding never gets dull. It doesn't. It's actually the opposite.

Questions No One Knows...

 Once he gets there, he still needs to walk half the distance that's left, which takes another finite amount of time. This happens again and again and again. You can see that we can keep going like this forever, dividing whatever distance is left into smaller and smaller pieces,

What is Zeno's Dichotomy...

 It gets better. The blocks are shredded into tiny pieces, which are washed and melted, so they become the raw materials that can be used again. As if by magic, bottle three is now ready to be reborn as something completely new. For this bit of plastic with such humble origins,

What really happens to...

 trying to force the crops off while they tear this thing to pieces so it's pretty primeval hippos and crocodiles normally coexist peacefully but crocs will take every opportunity to prey on a weak animal or scavenge a dead one we've seen one or two of these hippos

Top 5 Killer Crocodile...

 I can walk down the street in the exact same outfit and what the world expects of me and the way I'm treated depends on the arrangement of this piece of cloth. But this isn't going to be another monologue about the hijab

What does my headscarf...

 Research has implicated three regions of the brain variously involved in social behavior and complex cognitive planning, voluntary movement, and emotional and motivational responses. The other piece of the puzzle

Debunking the myths of...

 wherever i wanted to time to change it and i want to keep changing with it you got to disturb the piece when you can't get no peace this is what you were meant to do

Genius: Aretha Chain of...

 these these shredded pieces of our turf just torn up life