Zitat des Tages über Totem:
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.
When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.
It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.
Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.
A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.
Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.
One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964.
I've learned a lot about what kind of actor I want or do not want to be while being on set. I sit back and observe how other actors treat the totem pole of set politics.
On 'Buffy' I wasn't all that high on the totem pole as far as responsibility and screen time.
When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.
Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.
The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
I looked at game show hosting as the bottom of the totem pole, one step away from infomercials. I never watched them myself. However, it's been a lot of fun.
