#convention

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. ↗

— Nick Clooney

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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past. ↗

— David Rockefeller

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I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them. ↗

— George A. Romero

#come #conventions #easy #everybody #filmmakers

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. ↗

— Yoko Ono

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I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

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I like the way Wiseman builds a story in an unconventional way. ↗

— Jim McKay

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It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

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It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

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