I am co-writing a screenplay now and I’m working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don’t really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.
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I keep my children safe and protected from all my baggage. They get to have a normal childhood, and they’re not affected by my life.
I mean everybody’s got ex-boyfriends and girlfriends. Everybody’s got baggage.
But when culture becomes a baggage, things don’t work. What is good about anything that feels like a baggage? I think we should let go when it feels like a burden. Hold on to the things you love. Then it will be a natural process.
I go to the Caribbean for a month every January with hand baggage only. All you need is a passport and a credit card.
A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
I’ve always been curious about how much of our cultural baggage we bring to what and how we read. I suspect we bring a lot, although we like to think we don’t.
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don’t carry anything around with me – no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it’s too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective – your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.
Kids – in a really good way – can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.
Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.
Either I am rootless or I have my roots spread out so much that I cannot spot my primary root. I believe in Camus’ philosophy – It is important to be a traveller without a baggage.
I don’t want the baggage of knowing things when I walk on to a set. I am more comfortable being an empty slate, surrendering before a director and writer’s vision. I’ve realised that this is the best way for me to function.
Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the more positive colors, and a little more serious than yellow.
But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don’t come with a lot of baggage.
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up these reflectors to most of the negative things that have occurred in my life. I don’t carry around much baggage.
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.
You need to be emotionally ready for a baby, and the best way to do that is to clean skeletons from your own closest. Deal with the baggage of your childhood, or you’ll just pass it on to your kid.
Success comes with a baggage. When you are successful, there is a lot of temptation to not foray outside of your boundaries and just stick to what is successful. It is very tempting because it is very easy to do.
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Some accents people – internationally – can’t understand, also they come with baggage. London means a certain thing, Liverpool means a certain thing. Whereas with Welsh, he can be a middle-class man with working-class roots and still have an accent and it not be an issue.
One of the beauties about going solo was being able to start from scratch and say, ‘What do I really want? What kind of band do I really want? What kind of live show do I really want to stage?’ Without any of the baggage of being something with history.
For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.
We all have baggage from our upbringing! That’s life!
I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.
Everybody’s got baggage, and not just the classic, ‘Oh I have so much baggage,’ but everyone comes with so much context, and you’re not just dating a person: you’re dating all their context, too. Part of relationships is negotiating each other’s context.
When I’m doing a part, I’m not coming with any baggage of who did what. I looked at ‘Force 2’ as a fresh film. It’s a new story and a new director.
I’m trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there’s all that baggage: What’s beautiful about humans is what’s balanced by what’s kind of ugly and petty and depressing.
I love Joe Biden, but he’s not going to defeat Donald Trump. He’s not. He doesn’t have the energy and, quite frankly, he has a lot of baggage.
What people don’t realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or ‘best practices,’ you’re also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game ‘should’ be.
A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
It’s freeing to not be caught up in your own personal baggage.
Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn’t just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage – it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.
My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I’d inherited his care for money. Sadly, I’ve grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.
I carry too much baggage… the baggage of David Lean, Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal.
I’ve gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.
My criteria is simple, I require fantastic actors who are ready to give their best and are easy to work with. I don’t like people with a lot of baggage and rather those who are simple and straightforward and their agenda is to make a brilliant film.
I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man’s baggage is more of a trek than I’d like to take right now.
Some people hate lime-green; red has all this emotional baggage. Blue seems to be overall one of the more positive colors, and a little more serious than yellow.
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For me, it’s hard to enter any situation with people where we’re considering everyone equals, because I bring all of this massive baggage into anything that I do, preconceptions of my work. That’s a lot for the people that I might be bringing along with me to bear.
It’s a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know?
I keep my key chain simple because I’m a big believer in luck. And I’ve heard that having lots of things on it is too much baggage.
But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
I’m not a minority: I’m a majority of one. We all are. To call someone a minority, you give them baggage, of not being full, or not being seen as full. All of us need to be seen as full human beings.
I think there’s a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability.
You survive cancer but you have still got the emotional baggage.
Being a Brady comes with it’s pleasures and its baggage. I’m not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.
The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.
One of the beauties about going solo was being able to start from scratch and say, ‘What do I really want? What kind of band do I really want? What kind of live show do I really want to stage?’ Without any of the baggage of being something with history.
