Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously.
I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves.
People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.
Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.
North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.
After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.
For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.
I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'
You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.
I was considered a comedy magician. And - how do I put this without sounding egotistical? - it didn't take me long to realize that comedy magicians usually couldn't do comedy or magic.
As long as I can be with you, even my digital heart will start to throb. Like a quantum wind, my heart will start to sway.
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.
I think Yahoo has been doing so many things well for so long and, frankly, got a little trapped in, I think, 'Oh, what is Yahoo?'
A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its story.
In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices too.
Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.
Cop-out excuses and catch-phrase dismissals can only work so long before the holes in the religious argument cannot be ignored any longer.
I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
