One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that’s just a fact of life.
When you talk about a daily soap, it means one would be seen 28 days a month, which requires 30 days of shooting. So an actor being seen on a show airing four days a week and being telecast thrice a day comes along with a baggage of the character.
By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.
All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.
I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies.
A lot of times, we get into relationships, and we go in, and we take our old ways. If we take that old baggage into something new, it will never work.
I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies.
Back in the day, I was the first non-recovering doctor working in recovery. People would say, ‘You can’t do that! We need recovering guys in this.’ But usually recovering doctors have a lot of baggage and so there’s a certain amount of liability with a recovering doctor. But of course it can be ideal.
In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
Living with a stammer is difficult. It’s a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can’t be the person you want to be.
You have to realize that, when it comes to the South, we carry around a lot of baggage. The South lost the war, and I spent years denying my culture.
One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn’t want to take the chance.
We all have baggage. The question is: What baggage can you deal with?
In some ways, I am grateful that I was raised in a secular home, because that meant that I didn’t have any old religious baggage to carry with me. I was free to go and think what I wanted.
I think the term ‘hero’ comes with a lot of baggage.
I guess I don’t come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they don’t match up, I find it frustrating.
In Australia, I think, there’s so much baggage with it. You just mention ‘Snowtown,’ and everyone’s got an opinion about it.
I just try to leave my baggage at the door. I don’t want to carry my stuff into a working environment with me, and I expect that from other people. If they can’t do it, though, I’m surprisingly understanding.
My resume is lean enough that I don’t have the added baggage that is not necessary to be able to be successful in government.
In Australia, I think, there’s so much baggage with it. You just mention ‘Snowtown,’ and everyone’s got an opinion about it.
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.
