#setting

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#example #expense #known #ourselves #prior

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#concerned #contemporary #difficulties #far #historical

There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#actually #almost #being #bit #call

It doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously. ↗

— Joe Flanigan

#green #green screen #i #me #much

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do. ↗

— Kiana Tom

#being #focused #goals #healthy #i

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#any #arrives #during #immediate #me

That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#because #break #come #coming #father

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. ↗

— James Buchan

#admirable #british #features #foreign #novelists

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#idleness #men #sin #some #some men

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

— Nick Clooney

#american troops #conventional #conventional wisdom #getting #holds