#stand

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#anything #except #extraordinary #just #man

If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

#compel #conduct #even #greater #grid

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#because #believed #believes #cbs #dan

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#i #i think #important #law #less

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#between #both #important #important aspect #most

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#fiction #get #i #influenced #like

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#been #does #right-wing #things #understanding

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time. ↗

— Harold Acton

#autobiographies #best #biographies #decades #fiction

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#company #dance #ever #expensive #furthers

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch. ↗

— Count Basie

#definite #fast #had #i #jazz