#very

On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#because #dates #did #everything #felt

The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#compelling #epic #every #him #matter

The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#clear #consensus #experiencing #ignore #immediate

We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#distribution #everyone #express #get #google

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#everywhere #going #i #information #into

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ↗

— John Acton

#absolute power #authority #based #between #choices

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. ↗

— Lord Acton

#bear #degenerates #discussion #does #even

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#every #people #photographer #picture #two

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#cry #fact #hitherto #i #indeed

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#amendment rights #book #defend #everybody #first