'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.
Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.
One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.
The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.
I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspective of life in general.
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.
While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction.
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.
Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like 'Lethal Weapon.'
I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.
It's obvious that Pemex doesn't have the financial capacity to be in every single front of energy generation.
We won't get economic growth if we don't look after our mothers and the potential of the next generation. They need to be prioritised.
Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his [sic!] time but most people are far behind theirs.
People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.
