I think going into ‘New Moon,’ I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. ‘Twilight’ I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn’t cast it yet.
And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.
If it isn’t the sheriff, it’s the finance company; I’ve got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
One of the reasons I’m proud of the show and think it works is that as much as Ted is nice and he’s kind and he’s passionate, his troubles are real. He doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The world of ‘Ted Lasso’ isn’t a fairy tale.
The human mind doesn’t like a vacuum. We will populate that vacuum with the contents of our own head, and often that’s scary stuff.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn’t exist in a vacuum. That’s why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
I invented an algorithm for starting micro turbo-molecular vacuum pumps to be used in science instruments on a future Mars rover.
Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I’m running the vacuum, I can understand it.
Our counterterrorism tools do not exist in a vacuum. They are stronger and more sustainable when the American people understand and support them. They are weaker and less sustainable when the American people do not.
The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money, everyone backed out of it, and Google walked into that vacuum and dominated.
The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.
Oh, I’ve never gone off into that ‘the room’s not the right temperature, take this tea back’ stuff. I still scrub my own toilet and vacuum the carpet, and I have to be able to push my trolley around Morrisons and do my shopping.
The American people abhor a vacuum.
My worst Christmas ever was in 1987 when Santa brought me and my sister a dose of chicken-pox. And my worst present ever was a Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner! I don’t like to sound ungrateful, but I do find vacuuming difficult to get excited about.
My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.
My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart’s Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.
Moving from a first to a second album is an incredibly transitional time for any band because you never get to make one in a vacuum like you did with your debut.
I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in ‘The Rain Man;’ it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon.
Tamil Nadu needs a leader, a leadership. I am coming to fill that vacuum.
Media companies’ hit-focused marketing did not emerge in a vacuum. It reflects how consumers make choices. The truth is that consumers prefer blockbusters.
Well, I’m rather attracted to rather prosaic things like vacuum cleaners and hand dryers. Where people haven’t apparently made them with a great love for what they’re doing.
If the World Bank does not alter its shareholding structure to reflect the shifts in global distribution of income and economic power, its role may get marginalised as regional institutions fill the vacuum.
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining.
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don’t write in a vacuum, and we don’t publish in a vacuum.
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.
Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.
I wanted somebody who had a heart and a soul, because Joe Carroll is soulless. There was nothing in there. He was a vacuum of a man.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do. I don’t like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I’m much better with information.
The first time I heard ‘Sharknado,’ I thought it was a late-night infomercial for a new vacuum cleaner. Could have swore I ordered one once. Then I found out what it was and remembered that I grew up reading the ‘Sharknado’ novels.
We pulled out of Libya. Now look what’s happened: a safe haven, a vacuum, ISIS training militants to hit in Tunisia.
Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they’re funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we’ve suffered, or some desire we have.
If you don’t get feedback from your performers and your audience, you’re going to be working in a vacuum.
Laser cooling opened a new route to ultralow temperature physics. Laser cooling experiments, with room temperature vacuum chambers and easy optical access, look very different from cryogenic cells with multi-layer thermal shielding around them.
Anybody who thinks the lute just came out of a vacuum doesn’t know the history.
My parents speak with an accent. A lot of people that I know speak with an accent. I have friends who speak with an accent. Accents in a vacuum aren’t a problem; it’s how you portray those characters and how well they’re served in a script.
There is no way in the world that a vacuum cleaner will ever be obsolete – they use them for swimming pools, they use them for houses, they use them for industrial purposes. They’re fantastic things.
When I came into films, I found a vacuum in the field of lyricists, writers and composers.
Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences – we’re just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.
It’s amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
It is interesting to see what other designers do, and not work in a vacuum.
The art world doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
Paralysis in decision-making breeds frustration and contempt from the electorate, and provides the perfect seedbed for demagogues who fill the vacuum with populist simplicities, hatred of opposition and lies.
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