#whereas

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#better #beyond #bible #bigger #centuries

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#amplifier #direct #guitars #i #likes

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#anything #century #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#actually #erase #first #first thing #french

From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#already #audio #because #boom #digital

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#experience #feel #given #gravity #huge

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. ↗

— John Dryden

#always #continue #end #ends #founded

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#director #film #i #i think #medium

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. ↗

— Ken Follett

#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #continual #different #discovery #feels