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“The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.”

Activity Behavior Theater Theatre Features Theatrical Consoling Frivolity

Book:act one

Source: act one

“The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features of rough, uncivilized rural life, such as hard conditions of life, courage, ferocity, and partnership in authority. Therefore the strength of the 'Asabiya is maintained.”

Firsts Doe Stills Hard Three Term History Generations Conditions Authority Features Characteristics Rough Partnership Exceed Dynasty Ferocity Uncivilized Rural Life Three Generations

Author:Ibn Khaldun

“I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.”

Believe Capacity Species Features Redeeming Just Believe

Author:Amanda McBroom

“Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally create their own constraints.”

People Management Objectives Managers Features Constructs Surroundings Constraints Variables Insert Demolish Orderliness

Author:Karl E. Weick

“My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.”

Mother Song Features

Author:Colin Hay

“I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.”

Children Laughing Features Compliment Flattery Flattering Wales Exhibitions

Author:P. T. Barnum

“It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.”

“Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.”

Film Music Is Narrative Features Connecting Subliminal Subliminal Messages Adhesive

Author:Carter Burwell

“A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.”

People Real Ends Challenges Novel Complicated Features Extras

Author:Rick Bass

“It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.”

People World Made Natural Principles Century Observation Features Shock Selection Elegant Nineteenth Century Natural Selection

Author:Michael Behe

“When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, 'Cat On a Hot Tin Roof' or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor.”

Kids Used Parent Cat Theater Hot Features Roof Tin Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Author:Michael Biehn

“A lot of feature films do two pages a day.”

Two Film Pages Features

Author:Timothy Bottoms

“I think it would be lovely to see some features on a disc of 'The Rocketeer,' with some reminiscing. I think that would be dynamite.”

Thinking Would Be Lovely Features Dynamite Discs Reminiscing

Author:Billy Campbell

“The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way.”

People Way Want Next Release Features

Author:Bram Cohen

“I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.”

Ifs Knows Want Mean Long I Can Bigs Term Can Do Tvs Honor Drama Commitment Variety Features Long Term

Author:Adam Arkin

“When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.”

Should Years Film Asks Reader Years Ago Decided Doctors Newspapers Features Ran Polls Doctor Who

Author:Simon Callow

“Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't.”

Want Two Ideas Happens Sound Particular Things Happen Features Two Things Instrumentation

Author:Anne Dudley

“No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.”

Men Character Names Boys Novel Wife He Man Features Old Man Veteran Adapted

Author:Garret Dillahunt

“There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.”

Mean Littles Film Differences Television Concepts Features

Author:Joe Dante

“I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it.”

Want Writing Firsts Ideas Ends Film Process Too Much Terrible Features Short Films Writing Short Relationships Ending

Author:Evan Glodell

“Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.”

Features Compliment

Author:Bob Dylan

“Tobacco, in its various forms, is one of the most mischievous of all drugs. There is perhaps no other drug which injures the body in so many ways and so universally as does tobacco. Some drugs offer a small degree of compensation for the evil effects which they produce; but tobacco has not a single redeeming feature and gives nothing in return.”

Way Giving Doe Body Form Science Evil Effects Produce Return Drug Offers Degrees Various Features Compensation Tobacco Redeeming Mischievous

Book:Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,

Source: Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,

“The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.”

Ifs Wells Might Three Dangerous Design Objects Projects Terror Reactions Combination Features Programming Appropriate Thread Invited Procedures Fleeing Interfaces Heavyweights

Book:The Art of UNIX Programming

Source: The Art of UNIX Programming

“History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being left out which most marks the spirit and life of the person. My own thesis is complementary: science taught ... without a sense of history is robbed of those very qualities that make it worth teaching to the student of the humanities and the social sciences.”

“We should never lose sight of the underlying essence of a market-a place where buyers and sellers come together. Every other feature-whether crafted by tradition or technology-exists only to serve that primary purpose.”

Should Together Purpose Loses Business Technology Tradition Essence Sight Finance Primaries Features Sellers Buyers

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

“A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.”

Different Language Spread Features

Author:David Crystal

“I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.”

Thinking Hard Film Courses Audience Television Conservative Features Things To Do Hard Things

Author:Jane Campion

“I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.”

Fit Features

Author:Rachel Griffiths

“All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.”

Party Particular Thirds Features Third Parties

Author:Todd Gitlin

“Every episode of 'True Blood' is like shooting a low budget feature.”

Blood Lows Shooting Budgets Features Episodes

Author:Christopher Heyerdahl

“I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play.”

I Can Play Cities Company Successful New York Tvs Radio Features Etc New York City Producing Music

Author:Chico Hamilton

“We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.”

Community Justice Tomorrow Equal Bases Criminals Eras Features Division Ireland Criminal Justice New Era Prosecution Launching Northern Ireland Belfast

Author:Peter Hain

“The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.”

Worry Capacity Structure Corporate Features Operations Labour Location Cheaper

Author:Fredric Jameson

“I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.”

Years Made Lasts Film Given Mistake Degrees Permanent Features Vacation Last Year Fellowship Scholarship Made A Mistake Thesis Mayer

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.”

Made Loses Like You Independent Selling Made It Features Organs Luster

Author:Callie Khouri

“You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'”

Ifs Made Television Like You Accepted Features Humiliation Chicks Talk To Me Chick Flick

Author:Callie Khouri

“Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.”

Way Fall Universe Dog Color Falling In Love Features Attachment Ritual New Ways Orbit

Book:Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs

Source: Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs

“One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.”

People Flower Lows Features Highs And Lows

Book:Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China

Source: Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China

“I don't think I have any bad features.”

Thinking Features

Author:Stacy Keibler

“I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!”

Long Legs Features Inches

Author:Stacy Keibler

“I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.”

Needs Feels Writing Wells I Can Can Do One Day Direct Features Life Experience Can Do Something

Author:Stana Katic

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