As time passes, the actual complexity of our history - even of our own personal experience - gets buried under the weight of the ideal image.
Stars arrive on their own timetable.
Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.
The Dream couldn't tell you the vibe in the NXT locker room, because, quite frankly, I have my own. When you are a Superstar as high up on the totem pole as The Velveteen Dream, you have those luxuries.
We each have our own tour bus. We've never done that before.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.
I own a ranch in Texas, so there's always something to do as far as work goes, whether it's tractor stuff or tearing down fence.
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
There is something transformative about the act of finding your own way without a to-do list.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
When I started the business, only banks operated at airports, only banks issued travellers' cheques, only banks issued international payments, only banks serviced their own branch networks.
Everybody wants to protect their own tribe, whether they are right or wrong.
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.
I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.
