Rite Of Passage Quotes - Page 2

• Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

  Ralph Ellison

  Growing Up, Attitude, Our Society

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• I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

  Pete Townshend

  Stories, Passages, Rite

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• Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.

  Craig Brewer

  Footloose, Sometimes, Passages

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Contentment

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• The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

  Glenn Gould

  Music, Keys, Individual

  "Glenn Gould Reader". Book by Glenn Gould, p. 445, 1984.

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• I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

  Olivia Williams

  Play, Acting, Done

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• 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

  Real, People, Touching

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a kind of rite of passage, socially.

  Al Pacino

  Stars, Sex, Kind

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

  Gemma Ward

  Mermaid, Kind, Passages

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• I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, Book, Boys

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• 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

  Entertainment, Different, News

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• 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

  Thinking, Trying, Cracks

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• 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

  Phones, Phone Calls, Fantastic

  Source: deadline.com

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• 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

  Bullying, Attitude, School

  "LGBT Youth Need Our Voices to Stand Up to Bullying" by Rep. Linda Sanchez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.

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• The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and final oral examinations are quickly forgotten in the wonderful moment of the sherry afterward, admission into a very old club, parties of celebration, doctoral gowns, academic rituals, and hearing for the first time "Dr.," rather than "Miss" Jamison.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Party, Missing, Examination

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• 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

  Summer, School, Voters

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up in fighting position. It's going to war. What do we say? We say your're going to battle. You go out there and fight.

  Rennie Harris

  War, Fighting, Hip Hop

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• 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

  Today, Wealth, Existence

  Jeremy Rifkin (1992). “Biosphere politics: a cultural odyssey from the middle ages to the new age”, HarperCollins

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• The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.

  Roger Scruton

  Modern Youth, Adults, Culture

  Roger Scruton (2006). “Modern Culture”, p.127, A&C Black

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• 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

  Fun, Nice, Fall

  Stephen King (1979). “The Dead Zone”

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• 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

  Hurt, Children, Parent

  James Lee Burke (2011). “Heartwood”, p.370, Island Books

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• The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through.

  Criss Angel

  Other Cultures, People, Firsts

  Criss Angel (2009). “Mindfreak: Secret Revelations”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Pain, Believe, Comfort

  Source: hollywoodchicago.com

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• 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

  Love, Husband, Night

  "Q&A – Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori Grimes)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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