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• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  Daniel Gillies

  Behavior, Aggression, Passive

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

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• Sci-fi fans are the most loyal fans on the planet - there's no doubt about it. I've done a few of those conventions, and these people will know the lines!

  Greg Evigan

  People, Doubt, Fans

  "It's Greg Evigan vs. a Three-Headed Dog!". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. October 28, 2005.

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• Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some part according to social conventions, but also formed by personal inclinations and dispositions. Regimes are of central importance to self-identity precisely because they connect habits with aspects of the visible appearance of the body.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Discipline, Identity

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• It's funny because The Book of Mormon is The Book of Mormon now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for South Park fans.

  Josh Gad

  Book, Years, Fans

  "Josh Gad and Jason Winer Talk 1600 PENN, Creating the White House Family Comedy, Improvisation During Filming and Viewers’ Perception of the Characters". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 8, 2013.

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• I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

  Peter Greenaway

  Believe, Cinema, Realism

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• I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.

  Mark Hamill

  Stars, War, People

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• I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Hate, Waiting, Monsters

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• I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy with tatts and piercings all over, and he comes up and says, 'You know, it scared me so much I still can't watch it.

  Dee Wallace

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos and the whole fame thing, but then when you come back to Britain, you end up changing in a toilet in a theatre off West End and that's really good, because that is what it's about.

  Sylvester McCoy

  America, Theatre, Limos

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• I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

  China Mieville

  Fiction, Science Fiction

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• The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.

  Jaleel White

  Greatness, Agency, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

  Jonas Mekas

  Frozen, Way, Break

  Jonas Mekas (2016). “Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971”, p.7, Columbia University Press

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• It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

  Dana Fox

  Done, Comedy, These Days

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  People, Anxiety, Today

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• Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Men, People, Comfort

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The Constitutional Convention debated whether America should even have a standing army. ... They worried that a powerful military could rival civilian government for power in our new country, and of course they worried that having a standing army around would create too much of a temptation to use it.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Powerful, Military

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.8, Broadway Books

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• The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

  Myrtle Reed

  Negative, Morality, Interest

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.19, Library of Alexandria

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• I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out of me. Because it didn't operate inside the usual conventions of the horror genre in the way that I could accept. I can accept horny teenager counselors being murdered at camp. But I couldn't accept the derangement of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which was that anyone could be murdered at any moment - whole families, with no build-up music and no meaning. It terrified me.

  Christopher Bollen

  Teenager, Horror Genre, Horny

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

  Marian Engel

  Fall, People, Trying

  Marian Engel (1985). “The Tattooed Woman”, Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada

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• An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

  Ethel Mumford

  Pounds, Explanation

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• There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Gay, Order, Lifestyle Choices

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• My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

  Ernest Cline

  Book, Character, People

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• I believe the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war. That is what makes us different from those whom we fight. That is a source of our strength. That is why I prohibited torture. That is why I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. And that is why I have reaffirmed America's commitment to abide by the Geneva conventions. We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend.

  Barack Obama

  War, Believe, Commitment

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Real, Order, Color

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• Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

  Christopher Lasch

  Safety, Rejection, Retreat

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.196, W. W. Norton & Company

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