"I picked over my own life so much that there was nothing really interesting left to put into a movie, because I stopped living a real life at age 24".
I look at the two team sheets for tomorrow's game at the Millennium Stadium and there's no player in the Australia XV that I'd pick over any single player in Wales' starting line-up.
An upstate New York colleague, Representative Amo Houghton, even sympathized a bit with the Gore campaign, saying "If I were behind, I would try to pick over the votes as long as I could".
I like to pick over produce and dig to find the best cuts of meat.
This is more like it: Voltaire's plea for religious tolerance, applicable, too, to other areas, and – the reason I pick this over the others they have brought out in 2016 – never needed more than now.
"If I know that I can pay, say, 14 percent to get my project built on time and on budget and have it maintained for 30 years with no problems, why would I pick that over an uncertain scenario where cost overruns could be 60 or 70 percent?" he said.
If I pick one over the other, one says, why didn't you pick us?
In this case, I pick gravy over vanilla.
"I love picking over things in sales and rummaging and finding designer clothes for a fiver," she says.
So, I bend over, and I pick up the still living trapped turtles that I do find.
