Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.
What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.
The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.
Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.
Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.
Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his cell mates than a poet is.
My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychologist. My mother is Jewish, so I grew up in a mixed background. But the common denominator was certainly music, and that was sort of emphasized in my household as music being sort of the spiritual force.
A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator.
Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.
The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.
