New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place.
My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends.
I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.
The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.
Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.
I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.
Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.
We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.
When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.
And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.
Start from here, now is all you have, there will never be a better place or time and by tomorrow you would have lost more time.
It is easy to lead from the front when there are no obstacles before you, the true colors of a leader are exposed when placed under fire.
I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.
'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.
Conflict is easy because we've all had conflict, but to really bond with someone and to have a genuine connection, it needs to come from a place by knowing them.
I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.
