In the end, my love for surfing helped me overcome my fear of sharks.
My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.
I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed
I believe that in music and in a lot of things it's kind of like surfing, you can have a really big wave sometimes and then you can have a smaller wave.
Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.
I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well.
If Jesus is on Tim Curran's side and Occy is Jesus, who gets to win?
I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.
Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing.
I still feel like my best surfing is ahead of me.
I'd love to say something heroic. I'd love to say we made history. But basically it was a bunch of guys parked around the Bay there, and somebody grabbed a board and went surfing, and it looked so good the rest of us guys said, 'Hey, we got to get in on this.'
Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.
You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.
Mavericks and its talent deserve this innovation and respect. Now is the time to harness its power for the world to experience. These athletes amaze me with each wave ridden; I am honored to take on such an empowering responsibility. I look forward to celebrating these artists of big wave surfing through showcasing the most important wave in history.
My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we hurry up and go surfing!?, I'm sick of waiting for my sisters and their ballet classes.'
I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.
Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.
The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
When I'm surfing, I'm sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.
In order to keep surfing (getting-a-job avoidance) we just automatically got into hashish smuggling. Didn't even occur to us that something bad might happen.
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