Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.
Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer.
Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
Personally I estimate about a third of my time is spent on author events, social media and traditional publicity.
I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition.
Nolan: Gentlemen, what are the Four Pillars? Crowd: Tradition. Honor. Discipline. Excellence.
Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making.
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
I was never raised with the traditional story of creation in religion, and because of that I think I had a lot of questions. And evolution, the evolutionary narrative, helped provide some of that for me.
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.
One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford.
Sometimes 'Portlandia' can be pretty traditional. But the stuff I've always loved on 'SNL' has always been the weirdest stuff I've done. The stuff that went on at 10 to 1 in the morning.
Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.
Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.
What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing. You gotta shake your tail feathers.
In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.
There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.
I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.
