It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
I would hope this experience would help me if that NFL opportunity were to arise. But I also know that it's a totally different league. There's a lot more to it.
You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work.
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.
Readers and viewers will differ about what's totally standalone, what's totally serially dependent, and what's merely enriched by reading/viewing in a particular order.
I'm not going to pretend that I am the best thing in their life and they have to be totally loyal.
We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.
I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.
I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.
If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.
At the beginning, my folks were pretty upset with the whole thing at first, the music, the tattoos - but after observing the music scene I'm in now for a couple of years, they totally get it - they actually love it. They are so proud. My dad actually flew to Japan to see us play. My mom comes to the shows near home in Washington.
A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.
Did I feel naked being naked? Yeah. Totally.
To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
I would never want to take on a sequel of someone else's stuff unless I was totally reinventing it.
The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life.
We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.
In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.
I'm totally not against plastic surgery. I've tried Botox before. That's the only thing that I've done.
My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by.
Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?
Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.
I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.
I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.
I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.
As much as possible, I'd like every role to be totally different from the one before.
It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.
I've been picked on my whole entire life, and I feel like I started the IAmMoreThan campaign on Instagram to try to find other people who have been bullied and totally overcame it and did something amazing with it.
I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.
But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.
Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.