Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.
Dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise or fall of sound or the pitch and cry of words. Its force of feeling lies in the physical image, fleeting or static.
I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I’ll be doing next – or even if I’m going to work.
We think continuity’s important.
No one knows me in the States because the movies have been released in such an awkward, irregular fashion, all by different distributors. There is no continuity.
Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.
In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
If you book the same models that look and act the same in every show – I get the continuity, and it is beautiful to see, but there’s also no life to it. I’m personally not a fan of that.
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience – or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.
A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer’s obsessiveness.
In the end, with all of my films, I want to understand the continuity between these films and understand what they’re trying to do.
It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don’t want genocide. We don’t want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.
The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
Continuity in Formula One can never be underestimated.
The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
I think that the continuity of what I do as an editor with what I did when I started out 40 years ago is very direct. The delivery system is changing and will continue to, but the actual interaction between publisher and author is exactly the same.
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
There’s some projects you’re – where you’re worrying that the continuity isn’t right because people aren’t watching after your hair or wardrobe or props, or you’re not sure you’re getting shot at the right angle.
