If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power that's totally nonsense.
I was totally absorbed in the real world the politics the history the news and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel it was in fits and starts.
I'm not going to talk like I know about politics because I'm a total amateur but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.
My mother Lillie Specter was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.
The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie he's a bummer to have around especially as President.
I've been to war and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying and the consequences are serious.
Poetry is a totally different art than film.
In the total darkness poetry is still there and it is there for you.
Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
It is hard I submit to loathe bloodshed including war more than I do but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues you know and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally and it changed my complete outlook on music.
I mean music totally comes from your soul.
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies which is kind of like me but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.
I'd see movies comedies and I loved 'Animal House' I loved all the John Hughes stuff but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable fine for quick consumption but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think 'Well I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine I don't know how well I'd do.
I was a total athlete. I loved sports but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete I realized I wanted to be in movies.
When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.
I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?
Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.
I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
I love my mom. I totally look up to her and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom.
When you're my age and you see a story you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.