Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.
lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.
I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and help bring a visual tone to something.
I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.
You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.
As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D. P. , a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.
You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.
I feel like I have a skill set, but every experience is different and there's always room for improvement.
Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?
In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.
Marketing is the set of human activities directed at facilitating and consummating exchanges.
It seems unfair that anyone can set up on Twitter using my name, or the name of any famous person, without any checks at all.
I'm particularly attuned to lyrics, and very often a bad set of lyrics will ruin a song for me, while my friends will be just grooving on the music. I don't mean that it has to be about anything in particular, but there has to be some art applied to it, simple or otherwise.
Everyone is an expert on T. V. , just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T. V. set.
I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.
Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M. M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly history’s illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities.
I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
I really love to set things in places that are real to me.