Format Quotes - Page 3

• I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

  Adam Carolla

  Podcasting, Form, Mess

  Interview with Ariel Adams, www.askmen.com. November 3, 2010.

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• Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle.

  David Byrne

  Song, Effort, Together

  "David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value of Music". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 18, 2007.

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• As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.

  Alan Ball

  Running, Jobs, Fun

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• Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Videogame

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• We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

  Julian Assange

  Talking, Organization, Political

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• Exclusive will not be published in book format.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Book, Exclusive

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• I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Two, Littles, Mediums

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• Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Movie, Dvds, Years

  "Thinking outside the box office". Interview with Xeni Jardin, www.wired.com. December 1, 2005.

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• I love love
  I love being in love
  I don't care what it does to me
  The Format, in "Inches and Failing".
  Masood, a young lady has fallen in love with me-at least so I judge from her letters. Awkward is it not-awkward and surprising. You would be flattered and twirl your moustache, but I am merely uncomfortable. I wish she would stop, as she is very nice, and I enjoyed being friends. What an ill constructed world this is! Love is always being given where it is not required.

  E. M. Forster

  Life, Nice, Being In Love

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• No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Together, Verbs, Nouns

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.39, Scholastic Inc.

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• So far I've seen the life studies packet used as (1) an umbrella, (2) a makeshift towel, (3) a pillow, and now this. I have never actually seen anyone study with it, which either means that everyone who graduates from Thomas Jefferson will be totally unprepared for life or that certain things can't be learned in bullet-point format.

  Lauren Oliver

  Mean, Bullets, Towels

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• [It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)

  Neil Postman

  Television, Matter, Entertainment

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• In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Numbers, Data, Police

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• I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.

  Greg Graffin

  Song, Reality, People

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• Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Country, Radio, Pops

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• The cyberspace 'earnings' I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.

  Linus Torvalds

  Trust, People, Cyberspace

  "FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates software developers". Interview with Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. October 3, 2005.

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• Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.

  Nikki Sixx

  People, Labels, Want

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• As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Hate, Insane

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• The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

  Ray Romano

  Talking, Missing, Comedy

  "Ray Romano: Standup, Sitcoms And Real-Life Humor". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 5, 2011.

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• 'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Drama, Adventure

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• I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

  Kid Rock

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Reading, Listening

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• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Jobs, Character, Ebay

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• Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

  Dylan Moran

  Book, Thinking, Black

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

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• Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

  Gary Allan

  Soccer, Mom, Country

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