#conventions

Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#conventions #environment #fair #geneva #know

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#attend #career #conventions #else #find

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#break #conventions #isolation #necessary #nice

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#anyway #appearances #around #book #books

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal. ↗

— Xun Zi

#anybody #conflicts #conventions #criminal #end

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. ↗

— Bette Davis

#afraid #brought #conventions #did #end

With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#begin #bound #come #conventions #exist

I really do the conventions now for two reasons. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#i #now #really #reasons #two

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed. ↗

— John Fiske

#constructed #conventions #discursive #empirical #fidelity