I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.
Apart from life, a strong constitusion and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla
I keep my Scottish connection. I know where I was born, and that's an important part of my history, and I think all immigrants are the same. But if I could live anywhere in the world, it would be Australia.
The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.
In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'
I feel it's my duty as a human being, as a person who is trying - like everybody else who thinks about the state of the world - to enhance the importance of multicultural connection.
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between Church and State, and that in my action as President of the United States I recognized no distinction of creeds in my appointments office.
That raw connection between the two performers is something you can't fully plan. You just go with it and get lost in that moment and feed off of each other.
Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.
The secret of true prosperity is finding our security through our connection with the divine, with the spiritual world.
I need my 'art work' or 'entertainment work' or whatever to have empathy for or connection to the way I experience the world as a person.
There is such an emotional connection between the bride and her wedding dress, whereas in ready-to-wear you may just be focusing on color or prints for that particular season.
When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.
The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.
One of the most powerful networking practices is to provide immediate value to a new connection. This means the moment you identify a way to help someone, take action.
In Mumbai and Chennai there is method in the madness. Despite its large crowds there is a 'live and let live' spirit and a connection with good.
... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.
Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.
I went down and spoke to some of the people who lived in the neighborhood in Miami. At the end of the day I think my connection with Tarell [Alvin McCraney] is what helped me the most.
Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.
You get along with certain people, but sometimes it feels like a job and you don't feel that instant connection with people.
I wouldn't want to play a normal princess who always walks around in nice dresses. I never had a connection to it when I was a child, I preferred playing with plastic soldiers.
Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.
The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.
On the other hand, I'm drawn to top hats, and spats, and mustaches. I haven't read a Missed Connection yet with someone wearing a monocle, but rest assured I'll snap it up if I do.
The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.
I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection.
People really think that the only way I got to be press secretary is because I somehow had a personal family connection to the Bushes or the Cheneys, and that wasn't true.
If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.
Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.
Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.
I'm absolutely looking at my career differently, but it's still really important to some sense of connection to where I came from, which is this DIY, queer work ethic and sensibility.
I've got Spanish grandparents and I've got a connection with Spain. But I consider myself English and I want to play for England.
We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.
When you're in part of the same draft class, you always have a certain connection that not many other people can have with each other.
I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.
I started teaching spinning early when it was first happening in the '90s. I love the mind-body connection of spinning.
I don't really know what's going to happen in the future, but I think it's really important for bands to have strong connection with their fans.
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.
It seems that in connecting to what is true within myself, I help other people to connect. Making genuine connection lies at the beginning of building a real community.
The word relationship best refers to the connection between parasite and host, or shark and remora. It's a biological term. I'd rather be a jerk than a scientist when it comes to love.
I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.
I continue to do standup because there's a connection with a live audience - there are skills that you do learn as a standup comedian that help you on a set.
Without having an emotional connection or some relatability to the characters, there's really nothing to root for, in some respect.
The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.
I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.
I was very, very into animation when I was growing up. The Simpsons is still my favorite show. I have a really strong connection to it.
I've written a book; I've become a better husband and father because I'm home every day. My connection to the Hollywood world has only been through Facebook.
Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.
My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.
Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.
Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.
I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.
As a result of my upbringing, I was interested in reconnecting with my family and making them proud. Therefore, this emotional connection meant that representing England became a personal obsession.
There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.
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