Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
My goal is to put out an album with every song being an original composition of mine. I want the credits to read, 'All songs written by Gregory L. Allman' - that is something I really want to make happen.
When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.
All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.
I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.
Anything you rely on can become a crutch. And disabled or not, when you rely on something, that is what will cripple you.
Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.
The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
Once I set my mind towards something, it's going to happen. By hook or by crook.
I was six years old before I realized that there was something wrong with me... But I did have this crooked left leg, and my left foot was turned inward.
There's something quite fascinating with crooks and criminals and all things against the law.
One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.
When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.
For merchants, it is an amazing opportunity. Compared to Paypal, crypto has no credit card fees, no charge backs, no 'Oops, we decided to hold your cash for 3-12 months while we investigate something we can't disclose.'
A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.
Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
Kids today are so intelligent and computer savvy, so pairing an interactive computer world with something cuddly seems like a natural fit.
It is unlike the quintessential thriller where someone is up to something and the audience is speculating. 'Johnny Gaddaar' is the opposite of a thriller. In this case, the audience knows right from the outset what transpires and who the likely culprit is. It is a suspense caper.
Friendship is something that is cultivated.
On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
