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“I've got a number of stories written so far in that mythos, more lined up to be written, and a narrative arc taking shape between them. I was experimenting with releasing the stories online for Paypal donations, so the existing ones are currently available via the blog for free download, but the ball didn't keep rolling in terms of meeting the targets I was setting.”

Stories Term Numbers Written Shapes Balls Meetings Available Setting Settings Narrative Online Target Rolling Blogs Arcs Donation Downloads Paypal

Author:Hal Duncan

“After the revolution of 1979, Iran embarked on a policy of sectarianism. Iran began a policy of expanding its revolution, of interfering with the affairs of its neighbors, a policy of assassinating diplomats and of attacking embassies. Iran is responsible for a number of terrorist attacks in the Kingdom, it is responsible for smuggling explosives and drugs into Saudi Arabia. And Iran is responsible for setting up sectarian militias in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen, whose objective is to destabilize those countries.”

“I think Bernie's [Sanders] setting a direction in the way that [Barry] Goldwater when he lost - I'm not saying he's going to lose. We don't know what is going to happen. It's early. But I think he's already set a lot of themes.”

Thinking Knows Way Happens Lost Loses Setting Settings Theme

Author:Chris Matthews

“Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.”

Character Good Things Setting Settings Plot

Author:Lauren Myracle

“It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I'm slightly setting up the audience that there's a bit of fun involved, as well.”

Wells Heart Mean Courses Fun Bits Interesting Audience Emotional Involved Setting Settings Sentimental

Author:Alan Cumming

“I would like to undermine the stereotype of "strict philosophy." J.L. Austin remarked that, when philosophy is done well, it's all over by the bottom of the first page. I take him to have meant that the real work comes in setting up the problem with which you are dealing, and thus getting your reader to take particular things for granted.”

Firsts Wells Real Done Philosophy Problem Particular Reader Pages Bottom Setting Settings Granted Strict Stereotype Austin Real Work

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Critics who perceive the first level of Mann's irony recognize that the second voice is giving us reasons to be dubious about various aspects of Aschenbach's life and work. But many of them don't appreciate the second level of irony, the one exemplified in setting this narrative voice alongside the more sympathetic one, and inviting us to choose.”

Giving Firsts Reason Voice Levels Aspect Appreciate Critics Various Setting Settings Narrative Perceive Irony Sympathetic Inviting Dubious Narrative Voice

Author:Philip Kitcher

“I'm interested in power. I'm interested in the kind of polarities and equilibriums that take place within sexuality and philosophy and sociology. So in Versailles, in this type of setting, you have a place that is about absolute control, where everything has been thought about.”

Kind Has Beens Philosophy Type Absolutes Sexuality Setting Settings Sociology Polarity Versailles

Author:Jeff Koons

“I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.”

Ends Technology Particular Depends Decided Setting Settings Vague Pins

Author:Jonathan Trigell

“Nature is good for all of us. When we're exposed to trees and other natural settings - even within the city, it fosters creativity.”

Natural Cities Creativity Tree Setting Settings Exposed

Author:David Livermore

“I believe that the establishment of a real ambition, a powerfully galvanizing and exciting vision of what a group is setting out to create, is vitally important.”

Believe Important Real I Believe Vision Groups Ambition Exciting Setting Settings Establishment

Author:Kevin Allen

“Honestly, I'd love to think I was in a position where I had that decision. But last year I worked on a movie in Bulgaria, now I'm in New York or LA. It really sounds jet-setting when you say it, but there's lots of down-time where you wonder what you're doing or you wonder about life.”

Thinking Years Lasts Sound Decision Wonder New York Position Honestly Setting Settings Last Year Jet Bulgaria Down Time

Author:Sean Mahon

“When I am doing things around the house - when I'm decorating, setting up furniture, putting out a vase of flowers, lighting my candles, my mind is always thinking, "What do I need to do to make this space peaceful and restful and comfortable so that when people walk into it, aesthetically they're heightened and enlightened?"”

People Thinking Needs Mind House Space Walks Flower Comfortable Setting Settings Peaceful Enlightened Candle Furniture Lighting Always Thinking Vases Decorating Restful

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“People have a hard time going to a club and seeing this business tool on stage that's wholly indicative of everything that rock is not. Rock is not about sitting in an office setting up documents, yet they see someone on stage doing that.”

People Hard Seeing Rocks Stage Office Sitting Tools Clubs Setting Settings Hard Times Documents

Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman

“I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than our bodies.”

Important Body Young Goal Realizing Teaching Offers Setting Settings Young Women Setting Goals

Author:Chloe Grace Moretz

“The big thing is it's a domestic drama. Everything else in science fiction tends to be high-concept. Really for the last 40 years or so I think sci-fi's been a little cold and a little inhuman quite often - certainly since the 1980s - and I really wanted to do something that almost felt like a regular, real-life drama but just set it in a sci-fi setting. I think the best stuff is always like that.”

Thinking Years Littles Real Bigs Wanted Lasts Felt Stuff Fiction Cold Drama Concepts Science Fiction Real Life Setting Settings Sci Fi Big Things Inhuman Drama Life

Author:Mark Millar

“What I wanted to do was drown something enormous, like a Star Trek or Star Wars kind of space opera-type thing, but actually make it about someone who was just married to the wrong guy, and that guy just happens to be this amazing dictator, and she has to get her kids as far away as possible from this guy. So something that could almost be a TV movie, if you'd ground it and set it in Wisconsin or something like that, but to give it this enormous setting.”

Ifs Giving Kind War Happens Kids Wanted Guy Stars Space Tvs Type Married Enormous Setting Settings Opera Far Away Dictator This Guy That Guy Wisconsin Wrong Guy

Author:Mark Millar

“It's been a very interesting exercise as a writer - writing a little family group, like The Incredibles or The Simpsons or something like that, and setting it in a big Star Wars-type setting. It's been really fun, definitely different from the kind of thing I normally do.”

Writing Kind Littles Different War Bigs Fun Stars Interesting Groups Type Exercise Incredibles Setting Settings Very Interesting

Author:Mark Millar

“For me, diversity is not a value. Diversity is what you find in Northern Ireland. Diversity is Beirut. Diversity is brother killing brother. Where diversity is shared - where I share with you my difference - that can be valuable. But the simple fact that we are unlike each other is a terrifying notion. I have often found myself in foreign settings where I became suddenly aware that I was not like the people around me. That, to me, is not a pleasant discovery.”

People Facts Values Found Differences Simple Share Brother Diversity Discovery Notion Killing Valuable Setting Settings Pleasant Ireland Northern Ireland Beirut

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.”

World Achieve Setting Absurd Settings

Author:Jimenez Lai

“The WTO has outlived its usefulness as a setting for trade negotiations. It can still be a good place to resolve disputes (though this can take years) and share ideas, but most countries would be better off choosing their own trading partners and lowering trade barriers at their own pace.”

Years Stills Ideas Country Would Be Share Trade Partners Setting Settings Barriers Resolve Pace Negotiation Trading Better Off Disputes Usefulness Good Place Trading Partners

Author:Daniel Altman

“I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one of the reasons I went into music, and especially into composing is that I love setting up an environment where I can be by myself for long periods of time and have everything as quiet as possible, either to think about sound, or to think about ideas, or just to focus on things that are important to me.”

Thinking Way Long I Can Important Ideas Reason Sound Silence Environment Focus Periods Quiet Setting Settings Paradox Composing Long Periods Of Time Silence Love

Author:Tod Machover

“That you write a phrase or you think of something and it seems to have a deeper charge because the title has to be some kind of marker, something setting out a space, creating a space for what's going to come.”

Thinking Writing Kind Seems Space Creating Deeper Setting Settings Titles Phrases Markers

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Now that I live in Southern California, my current world certainly speaks to me, and I sense that my next book will have a more American and southerly setting. But that's certainly not to say I won't be back to Leaford.”

World Book Next Speak Currents Setting Settings California Southern Southern California

Author:Lori Lansens

“You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.”

Way Kind Long Moving Desire Goal Term Can Do Business Talking Steps Plans Security Activity Investment Planning Setting Finance Settings Long Term Setting Goals Short Term Stockbrokers

Author:Alan Lakein

“Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear.”

Setting Settings Dramatic Ipods Soundtracks

Author:Catherine Sanderson

“Setting goals is good to do, to make your dreams come true for you.”

Dream Goal Setting Settings Your Dreams Dreams Come True Setting Goals

Author:Julie Hebert

“Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament, says, "From the rising of the sun to its setting, God's name shall be great among the Gentiles." This encompasses the whole world. Suddenly it's not the Jews against the Gentiles, or my tribe against your tribe.”

World Book Whole Lasts Names Sun Jew Whole World Setting Settings Rising Tribes Testament Old Testament Gentiles

Author:John Shelby Spong

“I don't think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business - or for anyone. Most of the time goal setting puts too much energy and attention on being someplace else, instead of helping you appreciate where you are.If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people." I would not be telling myself constantly that I have to double my sales in order for me to be happy. I would tell myself, "I am content to be here in this moment, and I love this work."”

“Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They say, "If you don't know where you are going, then you won't know when you get there."”

People Ifs Knows Want Trying Goal Fine Setting Settings Warrior Where You Are Setting Goals Archetype Where You Are Going

Author:Wayne Dyer

“When we moved to Florida we experienced it on a communal level, in a more structured religious setting, with temples and different worships. That sense of community is very much interconnected with music for us, and thinking of music as this living organism that offers a space of mystical participation with forces outside yourself.”

Thinking Different Force Community Religious Space Levels Offers Worship Moved Setting Settings Temples Florida Organisms Participation Mystical Interconnected Living Organisms

Author:Taraka Larson

“With a historical setting, I worry about accuracy at every turn... With a created world, I have to worry about all of it holding together and seeming coherent... Each presents unique challenges and opportunities.”

World Together Turns Opportunity Challenges Worry Unique Historical Setting Settings Accuracy Seeming Opportunities And Challenges

Author:David B. Coe

“The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be.”

Source Setting Settings Primaries Primary Source

Author:David B. Coe

“Just take it a day at a time. If you think, "I'm never drinking again in my life," you're setting yourself up for failure. But if you just think, "I'm not drinking today," then get through that day and just stay consistent. Consistency is basically the root to everything; it's the root to all success. Consistency is key.”

Ifs Thinking Today Keys Roots Drinking Setting Settings Consistent Consistency

Author:Ryan Montgomery

“When the film [Certified Copy] was in the Cannes Festival, I realized that the fact of having it shot in a different culture, in a different language, in a different setting, that wasn't mine and that I didn't belong to, gave me a totally different relationship to the film. When I was sitting in the audience during the official screening in Cannes, I didn't feel that it was my film.”

“There are so many famous people now that are not really gifted or talented at doing anything other than getting made up, putting on tight dresses, acting badly, getting married. I mean, what the hell? I don't know where we are going with this here in America. And we are setting a tone for the world, because everyone looks at what we do.”

People Knows World Looks Mean Made America Acting Hell Married Dresses Setting Settings Tone Gifted Getting Married Tight Dresses Acting Badly

Author:Debbie Allen

“We all get caught up in what we're doing that we forget to start setting ourselves up for the future.”

Forget Caught Setting Settings Caught Up

Author:T. Mills

“I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.”

Made Important Certain Goal Achieve Strive Setting Settings Made It Setting Goals Nineteen Near Death Near Death Experience

Author:Phil Keoghan

“Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.”

Disappointment Setting Settings Ups & Downs

Author:Tim Matheson

“We all are now very aware of what a connected world we live in - connected to each other and to the earth that gives us everything we have. We need all countries and companies to step up and play their part - setting strong goals, having clear plans, and openly demonstrating progress.”

World Needs Giving Country Play Earth Strong Goal Company Steps Clear Progress Plans Connected Setting Settings Step Up Demonstrating

Author:Richard Branson

“I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written goals I wouldn't have to account for anything if I failed. Now I'm the opposite! I am always setting goals, and I get very specific about where I'm going and take the time to learn the steps needed to take to get there.”

Ifs Felt Goal Steps Clear Written Needed Opposites Accounts Wings Setting Settings Reasoning Setting Goals Overachiever Written Goals

Author:Edwina Findley

“Are you in relationships with people who don't have your well-being at heart? Make a list of these, and consider what you can do to protect yourself from their toxic influence. Sometimes, setting better boundaries and practicing the tools of conscious communication can be transformative. In some cases, ending a relationship may be necessary.”

People Wells Heart May Sometimes Can Do Cases Influence Communication Protect Conscious Tools Lists Boundaries Setting Settings Well Being Toxic Protect Yourself Relationships Ending

Author:Deepak Chopra

“There's such a crazy social expectation now that we put on ourselves and on each other about what motherhood is supposed to look and feel like. And it's impossible to live up to those standards. You're setting yourself up for failure at every possible turn.”

Feels Looks Turns Social Impossible Crazy Standards Expectations Motherhood Setting Settings

Author:Kathryn Hahn

“That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.”

Thinking Way Giving Jobs Artist Setting Settings New Ways Way Of Thinking Giving Yourself New Ways Of Thinking

Author:Miranda July

“We remind ourselves that it's a hobby [The Esemblist]; nobody is setting these deadlines for us, except us.”

Setting Settings Hobbies Deadline

Author:Nikka Graff Lanzarone

“In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they are setting the best example.”

Want Believe Cases Example Trump Clinton Patterns Setting Settings Want U

Author:Vladimir Putin

“When Donald Trump - star of 'Celebrity Apprentice', the man who brought you Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, and Trump "University" very likely fraud and fail; and Twitter-hands extraordinaire - is setting up his bobblehead on the desk of the Oval Office and shredding through nuclear codes, you only have yourself to blame.”

Men Hands Stars Failing He Man Trump Office Blame University Nuclear Setting Settings Code Fraud Desks Steak Apprentice Vodka Oval Shredding

Author:Chrissy Teigen

“Get your idea out there as fast as possible even if it’s not quite ready by setting must-hit deadlines. Let the market tell you if you have a winner or not. If not – move on and fail forward fast! If it’s got potential – then you can make it better.”

Ifs Ideas Moving Failing Ready Setting Settings Winner Deadline

Book:Maverick Startup: 11 X-Factors to Bootstrap From Zero to Six Figures and Beyond

Source: Maverick Startup: 11 X-Factors to Bootstrap From Zero to Six Figures and Beyond

“The paintings don't exist outside themselves. There's no lead photograph off the internet or anything like that. It all comes from my mind and it's a bit like a little movie each time - how do I get the props, the setting, the time of day, the light, the action.”

Mind Littles Light Action Bits Painting Internet Photograph Setting Settings Props Time Of Day

Author:Nigel Cooke

“The sentiment that is very inappropriately named equality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of equality and is not related to any abstraction, as a few naive "intellectuals" still believe; but because it is related to the direct interests of individuals who are bent on escaping certain inequalities not in their favour, and setting up new inequalities that will be in their favour, this latter being their chief concern.”

Believe Stills Facts Certain Individual Strong Interest Concern Direct Setting Settings Inequality Chiefs Related Latter Sentiments Bent Favour Abstraction Naive Escaping

Author:Vilfredo Pareto

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