#convention

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. ↗

— Brian Molko

#cool #gigs #like #music #our

I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#because #conventional #dream #i #identified

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#always #conventional way #get #heartbreaking #i

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome. ↗

— Anne Perry

#been #conventions #deal #excellent #extraordinarily

I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#awful #being #believe #church #churches

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

Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#ballot #before #business #conventions #delegates

Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#about #affected #another #century #conventions

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#assault #away #bush #civil #civil liberties

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#centers #considered #conventional #different #different areas