'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
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
There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, 'Dracula 2000,' and they touched on something interesting, but it only worked… — Amy Heckerling Copy Share Image
On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity.… — Bill Cosby 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
As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The Beatles changed music forever. They took rock n' roll from a medium that was about cars and girls and gave it… — Bob Spitz Copy Share Image
I had no idea of the grandeur and vastness of the Himalayas. It is mindboggling. It makes you realize how small you… — Morten Andersen Copy Share Image
LinkedIn and Flickr, among other sites, have already proven freemium can generate revenue in the social media context. — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
TheIinternet is a timeless void - you put something in there, and it's there forever and loses a lot of context. — Evan Spiegel Copy Share Image
Me at parties: 'Like, do you want to know the historical context of the prophet Jeremiah?' — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
“She had no context. She was a word on a blank page. There was no way to read meaning into it. No… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I still get upset if the pasta is not cooked how I like it, but I've learned to put things into context. — Gianluca Vialli Copy Share Image
“Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that’s what writers do,… — Paul Shepheard Copy Share Image
Usually as humans and especially as a man, we look at things in context. It's like, oh, I know what that is,… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-conscious. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
I am by no means suggesting that everyone who uses the neocon label is doing so as an anti-Semitic smear, but the… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
Music is very similar to comedy: It's all about texture, timing, context, vocabulary, performance. When someone's onstage doing a solo, essentially it's… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I like making art that's useful to people who have a harder road. Art is a tool to get through it; it's… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my… — John King Copy Share Image
The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
To understand the limits and opportunities of algorithms in the context of artistic creation, we need to understand that the latter usually… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
However people see me, they see me. I do know when you're in the context of a group, you're an artist that's… — B-Real Copy Share Image
“It is the spaces we must be concerned with. With clearing them out. Because of the contexts within them. With less context… — Darin Bradley Copy Share Image
“Conformity is a problem for many small groups. Members put a higher priority on cohesion than on coming up with a well-reasoned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
