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“Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a stage requires thinking about what theater is about and what the whole experience is about and what we're trying to communicate in that way, so you get into certain less abstract considerations.”

Thinking Way Trying Different Whole Certain Stage Figures Theater Communicate Setting Settings Abstract Consideration Concerts Theatrical

Author:Philip Glass

“Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.”

“I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.”

Should Setting Settings Idle

Author:John Darnielle

“A friend of mine asked me a question at the end of 2015. We were going over my finances and setting things up for the future when she said, "What do you want to do when you retire?" I said, "I always wanted to do a food show."”

Want Said Ends Shows Wanted Mines Setting Finance Settings Retiring

Author:Prince Fielder

“I'd like to help out in any way I can, especially with the younger guys in the minor leagues. But as far as setting something up, we haven't really talked about it.”

Way I Can Helping Guy Havens Setting Settings League Minors

Author:Prince Fielder

“Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.”

People Giving Matter Together Setting Settings Tone Legislation Persuading

Author:Barack Obama

“If you create an artificial scarcity through public policy, artificial rent so to speak - setting up a new import quota or giving out a particular office that is very beneficial - people are going to invest money, time and resources in trying to secure that opportunity. If the value is created independently of the search for it, the search for it is wasted.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Values Opportunity Speak Policy Particular Office Resources Setting Settings Secure Artificial Beneficial Scarcity Public Policy Imports Quota

Author:James M. Buchanan

“We try to prevent the creation of artificial rents. Rather than setting up quotas to stop imports we levy a tariff, that would be better. Or we pay wages in the public sector which are roughly equivalent to the productivity in the private sector and we don't therefore make it a special benefit to get a bureaucratic position.”

Trying Would Be Pay Special Creation Position Benefits Productivity Setting Settings Artificial Wages Private Sector Imports Quota Tariffs Public Sector

Author:James M. Buchanan

“We had a completely deniable exchange of papers - in the winter before the 1997 election - with [Tony] Blair, setting out what we thought were the realistic parameters for a solution: and we were getting reasonable responses back from him. That's what led to Blair's visit to Belfast on May 16, 1997 - two weeks after he became Prime Minister and his first official visit outside London.”

Firsts May Two Week Paper Solutions Election Response Winter London Setting Settings Ministers Officials Reasonable Prime Realistic Prime Minister Papers Two Weeks Blair Parameters Belfast

Author:David Trimble

“If I'm one that's afflicted with same-gender attraction, I should strive to see myself in a much broader context... seeing myself as a child of God with whatever my talents may be, whether intellect, or music, or athletics, or somebody that has a compassion to help people, to see myself in a larger setting and thus to see my life in that setting.”

People Ifs Should May Children Helping Compassion Seeing Talent Strive Gender Intellect Attraction Setting Settings Athletics Child Of God

Author:Lance B. Wickman

“In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).”

Different Christianity Dangerous Example Critics Setting Settings Eras Superstitions

Author:Larry Hurtado

“Some modern scholars contend that in terms of what "religion" was in that [Roman-era setting], you can't even call Christianity a religion.”

Term Christianity Modern Setting Settings Eras Scholar

Author:Larry Hurtado

“It is possible that, in fact, Trump's call for "America First" (despite evoking unpleasant recollections that such a phrase was the invention of those in the 1930s harboring fascist sympathies) and a positive relationship with Russia, might lead [to] a more relaxed global setting.”

Firsts Facts Might America Trump Russia Invention Setting Despite Settings Phrases Relaxed Recollection Fascists 1930s Positive Relationship

Author:Richard A. Falk

“I think Trump's affinity for Netanyahu is part of the fact that he is most comfortable with fellow bullies. He is setting up a worldwide club of ruling bullies.”

Thinking Facts Trump Comfortable Fellows Clubs Setting Settings Bully Ruling Affinity

Author:Lawrence Davidson

“The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do so in near constant motion.”

Has Beens Problem Brain Conditions Constant Solve Setting Settings Related Surviving Unstable

Author:John Medina

“Frankly, the conservatives need to be better conservatives. Real conservatives actually respect our Constitution and would stand up to an authoritarian. Real conservatives believe in clean, limited government and would stand up to anybody who is basically setting up a kleptocracy, nepotism, and crony capitalism. And real conservatives are actually strong for America and not weak for Russia.”

Needs Believe Real Government America Strong Capitalism Weak Constitution Clean Russia Setting Settings Limited Government Nepotism Cronies Crony Capitalism

Author:Van Jones

“Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast majority of the people who are middle-class and working families.”

People Needs Should Believe Government Class Middle Majority Democratic Setting Settings Labels Middle Class Representing Democratic Society

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I believe in goal-setting. I don't care what it is. If you want to drop 10 pounds, increase your bench press, jump higher, or win a Super Bowl, you have to set that goal for yourself before you go out and achieve it. I think you have to regulate it, and see how you're building toward it every single day. Am I getting closer to that ultimate goal? Am I doing everything I possibly can today to be successful? I'm always very cognitive of my goals.”

“As far as actually setting up colonies of people who would live their whole lives in space, I think we're a long ways from doing that yet, and I think we have many, many decades before we could be able to even consider something like that.”

People Thinking Way Long Whole Able Space Decades Whole Life Setting Settings Long Way Colony

Author:John Glenn

“As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.”

Soul Hard Eye Turns Grows Causes Water Natural Wind Source Return Breaths Wings Surface Setting Settings Streams His Eyes Passages Loved Ones Echoes Smooth Routes Feathers Arriving Rebound

Author:Plato

“I think it's doing a good job at the things that Premier Boxing Champions was setting out for. I think it is still heading in the right direction, I don't think it's over. It is definitely bringing more boxing fans and an audience from people that normally wouldn't be watching boxing. I think it's doing a great job and will probably do a better job in the future.”

People Thinking Stills Jobs Audience Fans Setting Settings Champion Boxing Over It Good Job Headings Right Direction Great Job Better Jobs Boxing Champions Heading In The Right Direction

Author:Lamont Peterson

“Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The whole idea of fertility regulation was still extremely new in this setting and many husbands and other family members were angry when they found out that women had decided on their own to use the method and had gone to the clinic in secret.”

“It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though they're ecosystems, full-fledged settings for a reader to inhabit like a place.”

Mind Heart Soul Character Beautiful Reader Aspect Metaphor Setting Settings Narrative Construction Hunting Ecosystems

Author:Joshua Mohr

“When people get this consciousness of the way things are supposed to be in America - that the locus of agency is in them, that they are supposed to be the ones setting the agenda - if people believe this, they get very energized. Yeah, it's annoying to have this extra burden of saving the country.”

People Ifs Way Believe Country America Consciousness Yeah Burden Setting Settings Saving Supposed To Be Agency Extras Agendas Annoying

Author:Naomi Wolf

“We don't have polls from the business world, but it's pretty clear that the energy corporations in America would be quite happy to be given authorization to go back into Iran instead of leaving all that to their rivals. But the state won't allow it. And it is setting up confrontations right now, very explicitly. Part of the reason is strategic, geo-political, economic, but part of the reason is the mafia complex. They have to be punished for disobeying us.”

“In the military we also learn principles of war which also work in a corporate setting: How do you concentrate as much of your force as possible on a critical point and take a risk elsewhere? In business that translates into focusing your investment on marketing, sales, or R&D, whichever will give you the greatest return.”

Giving War Force Principles Risk Military Return Investment Marketing Critical Setting Settings Corporate Elsewhere Translate

Author:Colin Powell

“The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a handy, controversial media hook. But it doesn't reflect reality.”

Men Ideas War Reality Sex Feminism Media Battle Blame Gender Setting Settings Hook Controversial Handy Battle Of The Sexes

Author:Laura Bates

“Knowing how far short I fall of the glory of God - whether it's motives or actions - walking it out is about setting Christ always before me. I'm grateful for the grace of God and His mercies.”

Action Fall Christ Knowing Grace Walking Glory Mercy Grateful Setting Settings Motive Grace Of God Glory Of God

Author:Steve Daines

“In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers to the well-being of humanity associated with climate change are ignored despite a strong scientific consensus warning of the adverse, and possibly irreversible, consequences of further delays in reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon.”

“Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try it, they should be allowed to go at it without supervision or restriction -in their parents' bedroom, on the grass in a park, in a motel; it doesn't matter, as long as the setting is private and pleasant. If we did all this, our kids would grow up into happier, healthier human beings. But we won't, of course. It would make too much sense.”

“The thing that helps me do a good job is that I don't feel the need to explain everything about the world to my reader. I'm not writing a history text on the Four Corners. I'm telling a story that's set there. The setting belongs in the background for the most part, and it's easy for fantasy authors to forget that. That's one of the unfortunate parts of Tolkien's legacy, in my opinion. Read the first hundred pages of the Fellowship of the Ring and you start to get pissed, "Shut up about the Shire's museums! Isn't the world supposed to be in peril or something?"”

“Everything I do is about setting up for the next. I think that my confidence and belief in myself as well as the music and trusting my judgment of my songs really grew the most.”

Thinking Wells Song Next Belief Grew Judgment Setting Settings

Author:Adrian Marcel

“Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people will root, has never had anything to do with why I read or write fiction. As long as the writing and story remain alive, intense, invigorating, provoking, the characters can be as demonic or saintly as the author wants.”

People Want Writing Long Character Stories Fiction Alive Roots Intense Setting Settings Provoking Demonic Invigorating

Author:James Lasdun

“America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me. Being of Jewish descent in England always carried a vague sense of being foreign, while not being a practicing Jew made it hard to think of myself as fully Jewish either. So living here in a way just clarifies that terminal outsider position - makes it somehow official, which I like.”

Thinking Way Made Hard Seems America Position England Jew Setting Settings Made It Officials Fascinating Outsiders Vague Viewpoints Descent Terminal

Author:James Lasdun

“For early plays of mine, I started with character. But I think that's because I hadn't been in theaters; I hadn't worked that much. I'm very interested in character, obviously, but once I started having my plays produced, I became so fascinated by the theatrical experiment and the weirdness of theatrical space, so now all my plays start with space and stage picture and setting - or container is maybe the better way to put it.”

Thinking Way Play Character Space Stage Mines Theater Experiments Setting Settings Fascinated Better Ways Theatrical Weirdness Containers

Author:Annie Baker

“I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and settings that I think are cinematic, where I can use symbols and imagery to tell a story.”

Thinking Looks I Can Character Stories Use My Own Female Setting Settings Symbols Life Experience Imagery My Own Life Cinematic

Author:Anna Biller

“Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.”

Has Beens Able Fun Setting Settings

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community.”

World Want Kids Community Class Educational Setting Settings Farms Urban New Orleans Acres World Class

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.”

“Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.”

Way Humans Problem Spirit Turns Individual Human Beings Cases Worst Design Members Function Setting Settings One Way Software Behaviour Packs Software Design

Author:Jaron Lanier

“You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.”

Artist Social Groups Terrible Setting Settings Fog Anarchist Deep Down Social Groups

Author:Maya Lin

“I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.”

Life Has Beens Stills Light Together Lasts Morning Our Lives Rivers Overcoming Setting Settings Evening Lakes Richness Early Morning Life Together Rivers And Lakes

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.”

Thinking Should Social Church Justice Social Justice Setting Settings Pace

Author:Max Lucado

“When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.”

People Beautiful Loses Periods Setting Settings Meals Sheer Magnificent Elegant Glamour Wardrobe Bad People

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.”

Way Want Doe Ideas Taught Drama Setting Settings Theme Protagonists

Author:David Mamet

“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.”

“I don’t know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it’s more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they’re a woman and people don’t want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Problem Difficult Views Position Particular Setting Settings Medieval Position Of Power Patriarchal Society

Author:George R. R. Martin

“More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.”

Comedy Source Tragedy Endless Setting Settings Intrigue Battlefields Spaceships

Author:Joyce Maynard

“While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.”

States Government Poor Levels Taxes Standards Setting Settings Parks Employee Efficiency Delay State Government Indiana Vendors Refunds National Standards Poor Service

Author:Mitch McConnell

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

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