Continuity Quotes - Page 13

• People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.

  Nathaniel Fick

  Senior, Friday, Monday

  Nathaniel Fick (2006). “One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like territory of a comics universe, where entire histories can be erased by a strong enough super-sneeze.

  Grant Morrison

  Strong, Work Out, Shifting

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story.

  Grant Morrison

  Trying, Stories, Sticks

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• A movie is a creative process from its conception, through its writing, to its execution, to the editing. I think with the best films there is some kind of contribution from one person all the way through that. The best films are made by people who write, direct, and edit, so there's continuity.

  Simon Pegg

  Writing, Thinking, Editing

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. October 2, 2008.

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• We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social workers say it's a sense of community, but it is memory we have banished from our cities. We have speed and power, but no place. Travel, but no destination. Convenience, but no ease.

  Howard Mansfield

  Religious, Memories, Cities

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• It is not coincidence that makes a designer but his continuity. And continuity means working and searching, working and fighting, working and finding, finding and seeing, seeing and communicating, and again working and searching. Designers must challenge the past, must challenge the present, must challenge the future; but first of all, designers must be true to themselves. Design is attitude.

  Helmut Schmid

  Attitude, Mean, Fighting

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• You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected

  Gottfried Bohm

  Fashion, Humorous, Natural

  Gottfried Böhm, Hyatt Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1986). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm”

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• I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

  Dexter Fletcher

  Character, Logical, Backgrounds

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.

  Samuel Wilson

  Liquid, States, Modernity

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• I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

  Cliff Martinez

  Thinking, Years, Always Trying

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians. Film is still very young. This is the first hundred years of filmmaking. So I think it's important that we have some sense of history and continuity. Especially in film.

  Dennis Hopper

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Dennis Hopper, Nick Dawson (2012). “Dennis Hopper: Interviews”, p.178, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days later. I'm one of those people who doesn't think the world has changed any at all since 9/11. It just seemed to be almost inevitable, something like that. That's one of the reasons why the backstory of Fay Grim goes all the way back into the '80s. I was trying to sketch out the continuity of all this hanky-panky between the security agencies of the world.

  Hal Hartley

  Teaching, Thinking, Agency

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• All investors must come to terms with the relentless continuity of the investment process.

  Seth Klarman

  Investment, Relentless, Process

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• Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime.

  Ken Burns

  Memories, Powerful, Home

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• Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

  Donald Hall

  Baseball, Memories, America

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• As we slam you with more and more devastating blows of the nagual, at the same time, we strengthen and clear the tonal so that it can easily withstand them - so there is no loss in continuity of consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Loss, Blow

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• The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of historical continuity for black people. It is a ritualized way of talking about ourselves and passing it on.

  Sherley Anne Williams

  Music, Philosophical, Talking

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• Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There are probably too many musical options for them now and the trick is to limit the number of musical ideas so as to develop structure and continuity in their work.

  Jon Appleton

  Numbers, Ideas, Musical

  "Appleton Leaves Dartmouth". www.dartreview.com. October 27, 2005.

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• Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences, which crowd tightly together and press hard one upon the other without any pause. This has its importance for any narrative, of which continuity and successiveness are the soul.

  Bruno Schulz

  Soul, Together, Ordinary

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.

  Vera John-Steiner

  Teacher, Commitment, Creativity

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• In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

  Lynn Nottage

  War, Roles, Normalcy

  "Lynn Nottage's 'Ruined,' 'Fabulation' open". Interview with Robert Hurwitt, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2011.

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• Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Dedication, Demand, Path

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Apr 30, 2013

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• If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Everyday, Degrees, Taste

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• Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.

  Noah Feldman

  Memories, Self, Practice

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• I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.'

  John Perry Barlow

  Real, Objectivity, Feelings

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