“The church in the book (and movie) plays a pivotal scene. We looked everywhere .. I mean everywhere! We had to have enough of a front yard area to house a Nativity scenes. And we finally found it .. two miles from our office. And we had been all over Tulsa looking. We were looking in places in Texas, everywhere! And I was in the car with the director and we drove by the church.” MeanTwoBookEnoughPlayFoundHouseChurchCarFrontsSceneDirectorsOfficeAreasMilesTexasYardsPivotalBooks And MoviesNativityTulsa Author:Luka Magnotta
“My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.” ArtRoomsWatchesStudentsPaintingOfficeComfortableAreasMeetingsStudiosClientsArt Students Author:Doug Dawson
“Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.” PartyMovementOfficeAreasCornersTeaMailRhetoricTea PartySlursTea Party Movement Author:Gabrielle Giffords
“It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.” PeopleThinkingShouldWritingKindPersonsIdeasHelpingGovernmentMightJobsCertainHoursFiveFourWeekOfficeCapableAreasGood IdeasDistributionMonstrousReceiptsGovernment Jobs Author:Grace Slick
“Double-check your voice mail message. Listen to your on-hold words and music. Write welcoming scripts for your telephone team. Pay attention to the music in your office and lobby areas. Make sure what your customers hear sounds good.” WritingCultureSoundVoicePayAttentionTeamOfficeMessagesAreasScriptsCustomersChecksWelcomePay AttentionMailTelephonesService CultureWords And Music Author:Ron Kaufman
“...Catholicism is like Howard Johnson, and what they have are these franchises and they give all these people different franchises in the different countries but they have one government, and when you buy the Howard Johnson franchise you can apply it to the geography - whatever's cool for that area - and then you, you know, pay the bread to the main office.” PeopleKnowsGivingDifferentCountryGovernmentPayOfficeAreasBreadCatholicismGeographyJohnsonDifferent Countries Author:Lenny Bruce
“You can become an alcoholic working in an office in Los Angeles. It's very easy to say because I do this shameful job I take drugs or drink, but the real reason prostitutes take drugs and drink is because prostitution is a party area. It's not about desperation, it's the surroundings.” RealReasonJobsEasyPartyDrinkDrugOfficeAreasLos AngelesDesperationSurroundingsAlcoholicsProstitutionShameful Author:Michael Glawogger
“My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all. But I think people throughout the area were just in a constant state of tension - I mean, adults.” PeopleThinkingMeanStatesFatherOfficeAdultsAreasConstantRanEngagedTension Author:Jeff Sessions
“The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be forbidden from holding office in the future government. And finally, NATO agreed to expand the peacekeeping forces to troubled areas outside of Kabul.” GovernmentForceOfficeAreasAidsAdministrationAfghanistanForbiddenPackagesNatoPeacekeepingKabulWarlords Author:Khaled Hosseini
“I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth Avenue had small bookstores, many of which were run by Spanish immigrants who'd fled after [Francisco] Franco's victory. I spent time in them, and also in the offices of Freie Arbeiter Stimme (Free Worker's Voice) with anarchists. I picked up a lot of material and talked to people, and it became a major influence.” PeopleRunningVoiceCitiesInfluenceNew YorkMaterialsVictoryOfficeMajorsAreasUnionsWorkersImmigrantsNew York CitySquaresFourthAvenuesAnarchistBookstoresFrancoFrancisco Franco Author:Noam Chomsky
“We know there's a clear gap in fairness. There just is in equity. In a lot of ways, economically, racially, blah, blah, blah. It just is. Not blaming anybody, it just is. So then you say, that can be interpreted and misinterpreted and used by a lot of different people. Some people run for office; some people try to gain influence. I generally believe all that's true. It's just, which one is the person who is accurately turning that dial and which one is using it as bullshit and lies? So, this is a tricky area to step into.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingBelievePersonsDifferentRunningUsedLyingStepsClearInfluenceOfficeGainsAreasBlameGapsFairnessBullshitEquityDifferent PeoplesTrickyBlahMisinterpreted Author:Michael Keaton