You can't have bad things happening to characters simply for shock value; you need to provide context. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I'm kind of used to people taking what I say out of context, so you have to eye-roll and move on from… — Fearne Cotton Copy Share Image
“He wanted me to play Scrabble with him, and kiss him as if I meant it. This is one of the most… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
You can have a beard and do drag; you can be a woman and do drag. I've met faux queens. I've met… — Manila Luzon Copy Share Image
With 'I Want Action,' I think people take it in the context of the Sunset Strip and the party scene; it was… — Bret Michaels Copy Share Image
“In context this is funny: "Tancredi, we passed a beam of wood lying in front of Ginestra's house.Go and fetch it, it'll… — Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
“most software- or systems-development projects start out without a context diagram, blissfully unaware that they need one.” — Michael Jesse Chonoles Copy Share Image
I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put… — Mike D Copy Share Image
George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
Inspiration can hit you in the head at any time in any context. It could happen in a conversation. Talking to someone… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Artists will always depend on the brick-and-mortar ecosystem to establish authority and context. — Alexander Gilkes Copy Share Image
Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context.… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
I think the context of the era was still really important for Daphne's character arc, so I wanted to get all of… — Phoebe Dynevor Copy Share Image
For those who have served in combat, life is never the same. It puts the most stressful civilian situations into a whole… — Todd Wilcox Copy Share Image
It's easy to get carried away with results, good and bad, but you've got to keep it in context. — David James Copy Share Image
As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their… — Jason Calacanis Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past. — Sophie Rundle Copy Share Image
Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Culture does not exist autonomously; it is set always in the context of social relationships.” — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
When I found film, it was like, 'Of course!' It was this very intense realization that this is perhaps the most powerful,… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the… — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
It's so easy to get into the hot take on Twitter, and to be able to do it in a way that… — Margaret Brennan Copy Share Image
“By changing the context in which two things are compared, you submerge certain features and force others to the surface.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Political reporting is too often trivialised, treated as a soap opera based in Westminster, rather than placed in a broader social or… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important. — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings. — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement. — Theresa May Copy Share Image
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it. — K'naan Copy Share Image
The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
A vest, as a clothing item, always makes a statement, but depending on context, those declarations vary a great deal. — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between… — Yael Stone Copy Share Image
