More remarkable was that he found his casts and crews among nontheater people — students and other artistically inclined people who were making a living by other means — and inspired many to pursue lives in the theater, among them the actor Mike Nussbaum and the playwright David Mamet.
Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue lives their parents and grandparents could never have.
Instead, the military needs to appeal to their desire to pursue lives of lasting impact.
The others - Carla, the psychotherapist, Yoyo, the poet, and the mentally unstable Sandi - pursue lives and relationships that would have been impossible back home.
The novel cast a caustic and despairing look at a group of Mexican hotel residents who openly pursue lives of criminality that include illegal dealings, notably in drugs, for individual gain.
No doubt there are therapists and life coaches all over the world dispensing some version of this formula, nudging their clients to pursue lives that better conform to their own moral intuitions.
It offered the light and landscape of Provence, but also had different cultures, the intensely Catholic locals (so fervent that some actually crucified themselves each Easter in secret rituals) and indigenous peoples pursuing lives utterly different to mainstream America.
Instead, drawing on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach, I argue for the superiority of conceptualizing well-being in terms of the substantive freedoms and capabilities people actually have to pursue lives they have reason to value.
However, we shouldn't let the "we can do it all" ideal tear us down or force us to pursue lives we don't want to claim.
One told them that "ye cannot serve God and mammon," while the other unabashedly encouraged them to pursue lives of material happiness.
