#formula

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track. ↗

— Bill Bixby

#fashioned #formulas #i #laugh #laugh track

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

#act #break #command #face #fail

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along. ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

#anybody #anything #continue #down #for the people

It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well. ↗

— Cameron Crowe

#build #characters #feel #filmmakers #formulaic

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#animal #badly #beyond #cousins #creation

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car. ↗

— Michael Schumacher

#been #car #formula #formula one #had

There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#decent #formula #get #i #itself

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business. ↗

— John Sununu

#business #create #creating #formula #government

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#formulaic #make #money #movie #movie stars

There's no formula. ↗