One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants.
I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.
Thank goodness I was brought up with the grounding of my parents, and taught manners.
Yoga changed my life. I go between 4 and 6 times a week. It's incredibly grounding and an intense level of focus.
I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma.
Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way.
There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.
Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun.
I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are.
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
My mother is an amazing vocalist and a lot of my grounding in music has come from her. She was a student of Lakshmi Shankar, my father's sister- in- law.
Like many others, I sometimes find that cooking can be naturally grounding.
I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.
To have a stable relationship in this career, to have a grounding rock, is very important because the career is so tumultuous. It's nice to have some stability somewhere in your life.
We got our grounding by playing live. You had to fall flat on your face, pay your dues and grow.
I have worked with the tavil and the mridangam all my artistic life. My style does have a strong grounding in rhythm.
To me, a public servant should have both the grounding and the compassion to carry the common sense and good will of his or her neighbors into the political arena.
Radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream; increasingly, it happens online, and sometimes abroad, among the isolated and disaffected.
Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.
I was brought up by a really proud, supportive family, so I have that sort of grounding.
Science fiction is about things that plausibly might happen. Grounding my work in the real world helps make that clear.
It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.
I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.
Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be.
I have a good grounding in yoga. I have been doing it from my graduation days.
I'm kind of all over the place, and I need grounding.
First and foremost, praying about things and having the good Lord as a part of my life is a huge grounding thing for me.
I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.
We hold on to so much in our bodies. Yoga helps you let go of things, and it’s incredibly grounding.
My point is that the social forces liberals like to point to are real - I absolutely agree - but, at the same time, a good grounding from a family can make a huge difference.
On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.
What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.
Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.
My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.
Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.
The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.
I am part of an age-old profession of musicianship. I believe these times require grounding, real-ness and fun. Let's do it. Whatever happens is all good.
I have always said the Olympics was a great grounding for me, to have that pressure on top of me, the whole nation watching you in my own country.
Fundamentally I am a wrestler and like being on top and I like my grounding and pounding.
There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding.
When people are performing in a musical, everybody is intuitively drawn to the right pitch. You don't want to be too broad that people can't relate to it, so it has to have some grounding in the real world.
A hot bath, time with a book, or five minutes of meditation helps tremendously with recharging and grounding us so we are more equipped to deal with everything life throws our way.
My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.
I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself.
Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.
To share your spiritual self or grounding with anyone brings about a reality that must assert itself.
Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.
Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.
A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.
I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.
For me the bare feet are grounding. I'm connected to the Earth in a way that I cannot be any other way.
The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation.
We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.
Without grounding, it's easy to embrace the 'baller' lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and slipping into a cycle of spending and indulgence.
In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.
The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.
I've had enough experience with knowing that things will turn out just fine. I pray for that. There's a lesson in everything. Looking for the lesson is grounding.
To be famous these days with no grounding and no substance is not especially difficult. I urge you instead to seek to be relevant, to be agile and educated.
Mayo College, where I got my grounding, is a private boarding school. It is a traditional school with brilliant teachers including some from overseas.
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