#context

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I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.


Kathryn Bigelow


#certain way #cinematic #context #handled #i

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.


John Cale


#cities #context #like #more #much

It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.


Christopher Darden


#assume #because #been #context #easier

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.


Ani DiFranco


#any #being #broader #context #experience

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.


Alan Dundes


#above #also #analysis #based #collect

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.


Diane Wakoski


#context #cultural #distinctly #ethnic #gender

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.


Cornel West


#always #barack #barack obama #being #black

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.


Alfred North Whitehead


#context #deal #destroyed #distorted #either

Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.


Meg Whitman


#because #behind #california #china #competitive

There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.


Tom Wopat


#arrangements #company #context #except #guy