And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.
When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.
Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.
Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.
I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.
Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.
Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.
You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.
The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.
When you waiting to happen what you wish - you should know T.I.M.E Tentatively Ignore Mind's Emotions
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.
The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.
It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.
A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.
