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I'm only interested in rites of passage stories. -- Pete Townshend
To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. -- Lance Henriksen
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life. -- Heather Mills
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. -- Danny Glover
There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another. -- Sylvester Stallone
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that. -- Orlando Bloom
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. -- J. G. Ballard
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. -- Pete Townshend
Getting a tattoo should hurt. It's a rite of passage. -- Jenna Jameson
Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp. -- Peter Morgan
Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence. -- Jeremy Rifkin
I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted. -- Sean Penn
I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim. -- Shailene Woodley
The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp. -- Sarah Wayne Callies
I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage. -- James Lee Burke
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception. -- Dan Millman
As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that is touching the psyche of a certain age group, facing the real internal questions of people who are going through rites of passage into adulthood. It's earth-shaking stuff. -- Ray Stevenson
For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying. -- Linda Sanchez
What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage. -- Billy Corgan
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions. -- Sara Nelson
Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love? -- Seth Grahame-Smith
He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean, is that all there is to it? Even when you learned to ride your two-wheeler, you had to fall off a few times and scrape both knees. Call it a rite of passage. And that was just a little thing. -- Stephen King
Cinema was my rite of passage. -- John Singleton
Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage. -- Craig Brewer
My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road. -- Kenny Loggins
Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage. -- Gemma Ward
I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. -- Richard K. Morgan
Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good. -- Emile Hirsch
It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young. -- Robin Marantz Henig
They were the books to read, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' A rite of passage going through life. -- Sylvester McCoy
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world. -- Steve Earle
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country. -- Mary Ellen Mark
When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty. -- K. A. Applegate
I've always loved watches my whole life. When I was growing up, I always thought of having a great watch as that next step - of making it, of a rite of passage. -- James Marsden
Death is the least civilized rite of passage. -- Louise Erdrich
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. -- Octavia Butler
It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground. -- Bob Seger
Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage. -- Hank Nuwer
We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage. -- Barack Obama
Your pain is a divine rite of passage through which you will be reborn as a being of strength, wisdom and purpose. -- Bryant McGill
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No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time. -- William A. Henry III

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