The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.
If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.
I think it goes hand in hand because if you discipline yourself on the floor, as you become an older player or a more seasoned individual, it adds structure in your life.
If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.
If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.
The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.
There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want a normal life, you might reverse the process.
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
'Lord Of The Rings' fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
