#commercial

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#cases #characteristic #commercial #composers #down

It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#business #chooses #commercial #develop #direct

Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#act #among #board #commercial #criteria

Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world. ↗

— Betsy Ross

#commercial #holds #knight #supremacy #today

I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times. ↗

— Norman Lear

#commercials #end #get #i #interrupt

And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#better #commercials #developed #gradually #happened

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. ↗

— James Madison

#generally #oppressive #shackles #unjust

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s. ↗

— John Cusack

#before #brooks #citizen #citizen kane #classic

Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#been #commercial #commercial success #critically #dream

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#bathroom #breaks #commercial #get #go