#whereas

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#bit #go #into #like #love

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records. ↗

— Michelle Branch

#before #being #going #i #i think

I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world. ↗

— Richard Branson

#amazon #around #brand #brands #building

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot. ↗

— Brendan Fehr

#because #camera #character #excuse #feel

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#am #any #been #country #degree

The thing about radio is that it's got an intimate feel. What I like is that you don't have to give it your full attention - you can still do something else that the same time, whereas TV is all-enveloping: you have to sit there and pay attention to it, and give yourself over to it. You have to surrender to it, but you don't with radio. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#attention #else #feel #full #give

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#doing #doing good #exert #giving #good

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

#adult #america #audience #been #european

What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence. ↗

— Daniel Dae Kim

#character #create #film #full #great

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians. ↗

— Fletcher Knebel

#art #getting #harder #people #politicians