Setups Quotes

• You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.

  Joel Osteen

  Tough Times, May, Comeback

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• Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Real, Mistake, Writing

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• God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you!

  Paula White

  Waiting, Enemy, Turns

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• What invariably distinguishes a good player from a poor one is their respective address positions or setups.

  David Leadbetter

  Player, Addresses, Poor

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• Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Order, Cameras, Looks

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Stories, Knockouts

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.

  Simon Pegg

  Watches, Lines, Firsts

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• April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Crazy, Spring, Passion

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.

  William Raspberry

  Life, Moving, Loss

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• I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

  Norm MacDonald

  Perfect, Would Be, Lines

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• Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.

  Jet Li

  Long, Different, Needs

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• I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

  Julian Fellowes

  Mean, World, Truth Is

  "Julian Fellowes On The Rules Of 'Downton'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 11, 2012.

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• Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Writing, Knack, Way

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• Having acquired an espresso machine as good as a solid e-61 and a very good grinder, your incremental dollars will be best spent on either buying truly badass coffee, or setting up a roasting setup yourself that with lots of effort will allow you to produce high end roasted coffee.

  Ken Fox

  Badass, Coffee, Espresso

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• You don't always need the absolute latest gear. Find your piece(s) of equipment and let time evolve your ideas with that setup.

  Richie Hawtin

  Ideas, Needs, Gears

  FaceBook post by Richie Hawtin from Oct 31, 2012

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• Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the setups in private and quiet. In one sense, it's about protecting yourself; in another sense, it's about always being open to surprise, even from the set, because there may be some detail that you hadn't noticed. I think this is crucial. There are many pictures that seem good in so many ways except one: They lack a sense of surprise, they've never left the page.

  Martin Scorsese

  Block, Inspiration, Thinking

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• A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.

  Hermann Weyl

  Simple, Simplicity, Principles

  Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with the task of spreading His message and so giving rise to a society of believers: His Church. He promised the Spirit of truth to His Church and then sent Him.

  Pope Paul VI

  Teacher, Religious, School

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• Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Space, Stories

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• When the passer's back foot hit the ground on his setup, I wanted the ball gone. If no one was open, if he had to buy time, I wanted him to bounce in place. And then I only wanted him scrambling as a last resort. When you bounce, you maintain your balance. When you start moving, you create an unnatural position for yourself. I want everything to be natural.

  Sid Gillman

  Football, Moving, Nfl

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• We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Causes, Feds

  Song: Keep Ya Head Up

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• Lend's dad, two werewolves, and a vampire. It was like the setup to a bad joke or something. A doctor, two werewolves, and a vampire walk into a bar. "What'll you have?" the bartender asks. "We were thinking him," the vampire answers, eyeing the doctor. Okay, jokes weren't my strong point.

  Kiersten White

  Strong, Dad, Thinking

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• Every setback is a setup for a comeback!

  Joel Osteen

  Comeback, Setback

  Joel Osteen (2013). “Daily Readings from Every Day a Friday: 90 Devotions to Be Happier 7 Days a Week”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.

  Andrew Dominik

  Brother, People, Guy

  "Cannes: Andrew Dominik On The Violence, Politics & Look Of ‘Killing Them Softly’ With Brad Pitt". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.indiewire.com. May 24, 2012.

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• So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.

  Uwe Boll

  Character, Games, Video

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