I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts of Jim Croce, and a lot of Cat Stevens.
When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.
Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'
To me, some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise, some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies.
I don't think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.
Africa is really a place for the wealthy traveler. It's got some nice hotels, but they're very expensive hotels. It doesn't really cater to the backpacker or to the overland traveler.
If deep-frying catfish, try a dredge of seasoned flour and cornmeal and add some bacon fat to the oil.
If you have some potatoes, green beans and cauliflower, you have a heck of a dish that can feed an entire family.
When you make or study art, you are not exploring some kind of candy on the surface of a machine. You are making or studying causality.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Even in the investigations into direct production of calcium peroxide in an alkali melt with highly compressed oxygen, it was found to be necessary to bring the high-pressure gas into contact with the suspension of lime in caustic alkali melt by agitation or some other means of mixing.
I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.
Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
The whole celebrity culture is super weird, but I'm part of it for some reason, and you kind of have to be as an actor to be successful.
Even though Czech food is traditionally a bit heavy, especially for a climber, I can't resist some dishes: sveckova, for example, is beef in a creamy sauce with celery and dumplings. It's probably fortunate that I don't know how to cook it myself.
There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.
There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.
I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
