Sentence examples for personal idols from inspiring English sources

Yet here he is, now 39, on a stifling, muggy, pungent stage at the venerable Beijing Film Studio -- built by Mao in 1949 to make propaganda -- directing his favorite actress with one of his personal idols, the veteran Japanese action star Sonny Chiba, in one of the major scenes of his newest film, "Kill Bill".

This incident forced Say Anything to cancel another tour, this time with Bemis' personal idols Saves the Day, along with Senses Fail and The Early November.

"I always knew her as a super-successful renaissance woman," he says, adding that though his Italian American mother was a huge Streisand fan, his personal idols ran more toward Sammy Davis Jr., Jack Nicholson and Bernadette Peters.

While Daze's fine art proclivities may be a considerable distance away from his personal idols, his upbringing is central to his work; making the need for the 'less is more' adage irrelevant.

"I'm quite sure they will make people think of Tim Burton," she said, acknowledging that the artist and filmmaker has long been a personal idol.

Gustavsson, who extended his personal winning streak to seven with a 36-save performance, was happy to play against Lundqvist, his Olympic teammate with Sweden and a personal idol.

Bob Bob won't ever get to the level of its personal idol, The Wolseley, but there is good business to be had by meaning a bit less to more people.

"Scared that he'd be like" – and he adopts that unmistakeable, querulous voice: "'Who you doing?'" He describes Jackson as a kindred spirit, as well as a personal idol, and admits to dropping an MJ reference, or explicit homage, into each one of the Rush Hour movies (perhaps most memorably, to Chan: "I'm Michael Jackson, you Tito. Your ass belongs to me").

And while Didion is, as I said, a personal idol, on the subject of advertising I'm afraid I can't help but think of the words of another icon – the late, great Bill Hicks: "Do a commercial, you're off the artistic roll call, every word you say is suspect, you're a corporate whore and eh, end of story".

But it was the encore on the late Krzysztof Komeda's beautiful, hypnotically modulating Svantetic that brought the house down, as Możdżer paid tribute to a Polish jazz hero and personal idol and Simcock seemed to sense exactly how he felt.

Numbers' then resident DJ, Techno Tom, was the city's topmost turntablist and Babb's personal idol.