We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.
I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules. ' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it. ' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.
I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist. "
Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind.
I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.
The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to believe. "If there might be space aliens, we can assume there are. " "If the idea of Atlantis is not impossible, we can take it for granted. " "If the traditional view of gospel authorship cannot be definitievely debunked, we can go right on assuming it's truth. " No, you can't.
While my stories are experimental, they're also very traditional. I love the works of the great Russian writers like [Pavel] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy, and their ability to portray our human struggles and joys.
Running through a lot of traditional photojournalism there is an overwhelming sense of. . . pictures that say something, that define something. I'm not trying to define things. I'm trying to explore things. I'm trying to ask questions.
I use the traditional Moyse scale books slightly modified.
I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science.
Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.
I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.
Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural - as is listening to music or playing an instrument for some people. For this reason I searched for themes of my era and my generation. Photography offered this, so I chose it as a medium for painting.
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.
So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.
I found out about college radio and this whole noise genre blew me away. When I saw that guys could just get up there and have no traditional music ability and be in a band, it was really appealing to me.
Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.
The Rig Veda defines yoga as a union or "yoking" of the material and spiritual worlds, and it doesn't describe any physical postures other than the traditional cross-legged meditation pose.