I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.
The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary.
My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.
People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.
I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school.
I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me, or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.
The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.
If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.
Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.
I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.
My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.
I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.
Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.
Be generous with your smile and try not to frown. And you will see my children; your smile will never let you down ☺
