#fixed

On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#cannot #director #fixed #like #something

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#belief #bias #control #dealing #derived

It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#character #definitely #either #even #fact

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? ↗

— David Byrne

#comes #creativity #draw #fixed #i

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#even #fixed #free #generation #infinitely

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#fixed #heaven #highest #stars #things

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#book #characters #fixed #get #gets

Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#areas #been #before #chaotic #common

I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#fixed #gotten #hair #i #never

If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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