#setting

We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#bands #electronic #like #out #rock

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants. ↗

— David Mamet

#always #comes #does #down #drama

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#arab world #card #every #front #got

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#bank #being #bores #church #fire

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#battlefields #comedy #endless #family #headed

When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#chicago #companies #competition #francisco #frequencies

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#delay #efficiency #employees #governments #ignore

It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#burn #came #deliver #experience #get

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#beginning #come #david #early #goes

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#cannot #chaos #compulsion #ethical #invent