The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
Every new generation seems to have to go through its Doors rite of passage.
It's a rite of passage for all women to make sure the next generation is in a better place than you. I will play my part.
My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.
Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.
They were the books to read, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' A rite of passage going through life.
Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.
Girlhood is often marred by schoolgirl cruelty, a grim rite of passage in which parents sometimes cruelly collude. Mothers and fathers must take a stand against petty or protracted hostility between girls.
KIN' is basically a kind of rite of passage, scars-and-all celebration of going through difficult things in your life and being better for it.
Being a mother impacts every aspect of your life. It's a rite of passage which gives you an entirely different outlook on things.
It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of the natural order of things. It is an outrage that there is an attitude that this is normal. This is not normal. We can't shrug our shoulders and say this is just a 'fact of life' in remote Australia.
Cinema was my rite of passage.
My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money. It's ridiculous. In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.
Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment.
A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place of silence and majesty and encourages you to live life more courageously and genuinely.