I Quotes
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“In comedy you feel you need to go back to the theatre every now and again, you feel you need to go back to an audience every now and again to see if you're still getting your craft right, making people laugh at the moments you think they should and that sort of thing.”
“In comedy you sometimes have to look at the funny bone a little bit. So, that was the hardest part - was not offending. I'm not laughing at anybody. We're laughing together about who we are - and the funnier part of who we are. I'm (sure) not writing this and calling you a stereotype. I'm not doing that.”
“In comedy you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.”
“In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup. If there is action elsewhere on the stage, the comic line can be lost.”
“In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.”
“In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.”
“In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included.”
“In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.”
“In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.”
“In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.”
“In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.”
“In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.”
“In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.”
“In comedy, you have to do all of the same stuff you do in drama and then put the comedy on top of it. You, the actor, are aware of the comedy but the character is oblivious. And you have to have a sense of humor.”
“In comedy, you see yourself as a newcomer and then you realize you've been doing it for 18, 20 years, which is ridiculous.”
“In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.”
“In comics, collaboration saves your life. How well you can work with an artist, a colorist, a letterer, is how good your comic is.”
“In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the cinematographer to make a good fight scene while you go and get a cup of coffee.”
“In coming to an appreciation of the Mormon Church, one of the things that has been most compelling to me is the Mormon understanding of family, which extends beyond the general injunction to be fruitful and multiply, and addresses the permanence of love relationships into eternity, and embraces the sanctity of having children.”
“In coming to Atlantic City, we believed strongly that we were right. In fact, it was just right for us to come to challenge the seating of the regular Democratic Party from Mississippi. But we didn't think when we got there that we would meet people, that actually the other leaders of the Movement would differ with what we felt was right.”
“In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.”
“in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?”
“In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.”
“In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.”
“In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.”
Source: An Experiment in Criticism
“In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches; there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say, "Oh, a little bit like this." In the beginning, there isn't even a theme. It's like getting the whole world at your feet - to empty your mind of everything that's ever happened before, to get an empty space.”
“In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United States in placing in New York harbor an heroic statue representing Liberty enlightening the world. What course shall our nation pursue? Send the statue of Liberty back to France and borrow from England a statue of William the Conqueror?”
Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan
“In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is”
“In commercial real estate, timing matters — but vision is what turns property into opportunity." — CPN Property Experts”
“In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.”
“In committed sex, in marriage, people don't feel the need to seduce or to build anticipation - - that's an effort they think they no longer need to do now that they have conquered their partner. If they're in the mood, their partner should be too.”
“In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.”
“In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.”
Source: Logic: Or, The Right Use of Reason, in the Inquiry After Truth
“In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.”
Source: Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
“In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.”
Source: Principles of Economics: An Introductory Volume
“In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.”
“In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.”
“In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.”
“In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color”
“In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in.”
Source: Edward Weston on photography
“In communication, directing your message solely to the intellect is futile. Your message must touch a person's heart to open their mind.”
Source: Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
“In communication, you get back what you send out.”
Source: Passion Profit Power
“In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.”
“In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.”
“In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.”
“In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.”
“In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”
Source: Karl Marx: A Reader
“In communities, at work, but particularly in families, people are put together in something like a three-legged race. God means us to cross the finish line together, and all the other people tied together with us play some part in our progress. They are oftentimes to rouse our stubborn sins to the surface, where we can deal with them and overcome them. Bundled together in families, a giant seven or nine or fifteen legged pack, we seem to make very poor progress indeed and fall to the ground in bickering heaps with some regularity. But God has put us together - has appointed each person in your bundle specifically for you, and you for them. And so, 'little children, let us love one another' with might and main, and keep hopping together toward the finish line.”