#setting

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this. ↗

— Damon Albarn

#business #deal #defeat #different #different way

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#beginning #beings #chaotic #contrary #depressing

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#does #flaw #line #look #louse

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges. ↗

— William Falconer

#direction #head #hence #her #opposed

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings. ↗

— Marcel Carne

#frames #identical #same #settings #should

As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#agent #already #by the people #disregarded #doing

One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#back #closed #diamonds #engagement #few

At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years. So that set up a lot of roadblocks for me. ↗

— Corey Clark

#album #also #american #american idol #because

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#american #big #book #conspiracy #family

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#adjustment #i #making #never #performance