In my particular instance I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.
A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family particularly brothers and their father.
It's true Christmas can feel like a lot of work particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories good and bad are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.
All of us grow up in particular realities - a home family a clan a small town a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born or we are peripherally aware of it.
The great thing is that whether we have faith or not we are by and large very tolerant of people whatever their particular view.
I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
At the time I perceived most religious men particularly the pastors with all their talk about love faith and relationship as effeminate.
The question Americans should ask is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular faith but rather whether that candidate's faith makes it more likely he or she will support policies that align with their values.
People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.
Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events from the choice made by God who wanted to speak to us to become man to die and rise again in a particular place and at a particular time.
If you have a particular faith or religion that is good. But you can survive without it.
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West so was my information inadequate to help them to victory or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?
The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
I'm not scared of anything in particular but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration of feudalism and tribalism.
Once you're in a particular country and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind which is independent of all experience in its origin though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience because you only examine your particular part.
I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity and that is an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life and the exhilarating experience of open space.
Education particularly higher education will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square so I still never go.