From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.
The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking.
Empire in the past was always a far harsher and much more accident-prone business than conventional history books imply. And the costs of these overseas invasions were borne not just by those on the receiving end but – frequently – by ordinary, vulnerable people among or associated with the invaders.
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can’t manage it.
I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.
I’m unconventional and eccentric and talk things out, and it seemed that the person I married – maybe in reaction – got quieter and more conventional over time. It felt as if we were putting each other in a straitjacket.
The conventional Indian movie industry is not for me: I cannot dance around trees or the water-fountain.
Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.
My work has always been about not being conventional and male gaze is convention.
The megapixel war in conventional cameras has been a total myth. It’s taking us all in the wrong direction. Once a picture goes online, you’re throwing away 95 to 98 percent of those pixels.
I haven’t looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.
Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
If organized religion has become less relevant, it’s not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs – it’s because they’ve held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
It’s true that since 9/11, the application of conventional military rules of engagement has gotten a bit foggy. The Taliban were not an ‘enemy state,’ but the Canadian Forces conducted its operations in Afghanistan as though the rules of war applied anyway.
It’s not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope – and that’s what I do with all my stories.
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
I’m quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don’t look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more ‘character’-type parts. I wouldn’t say I’m the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth – it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.
I’m quite conventional at heart.
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it’s never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.
It’s a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!
I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.
Beast Books will be longer than conventional long-form magazine articles but shorter than conventional nonfiction books. They will be published digitally and distributed on multiple platforms, and will soon thereafter be available as handy paperbacks.
I swore I would never do a reality show. I’ve been offered them for years and years because our family life is a little crazy – I will admit to that. Definitely not the conventional mom or family – or anything, for that matter.
As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition – of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.
It is interesting that cyberwarfare is developing into something conventional and attacking objects, infrastructure, and critical services.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.
America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old fashioned white racism has lost its legitimacy in the world and become an almost universal disgrace.
People told me I was nuts when I went to sign an act from YouTube – and now, that’s one of the most conventional things you can do as an agent or manager.
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary family man, and his policy positions would have made him a conventional liberal Republican not that long ago.
I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn’t have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
The DS was launched back in 2004, and sales of that machine hit a record in 2009 in the United States. That is totally different from the conventional sales pattern, in which game gear sales peak in the third year and take a downturn thereafter.
New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.
I don’t think of myself as a maverick at all. Quite the opposite – I really think of myself as quite conventional but dispersed over unusual territory.
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work’s conventional exterior remain genuine for all times.
I don’t think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.
I can’t do the conventional heroine’s role.
I never thought I was going to be an architect in the conventional sense.
What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.
Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They’re the ones who constantly ask, ‘What if?’ and ‘Why not?’ They’re not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don’t disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.
The challenge with a candidate like Donald Trump is he’s not a conventional candidate, and he doesn’t run a conventional campaign, and he doesn’t answer questions in a conventional way.
Anytime we wanted to do something, we found a way to do it through conventional banking means.
Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.
Landmines are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill – for decades.
I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
Whenever a film doesn’t follow to the letter the preset strict conventional rules of today’s commercial cinema, it’s considered weird.
Charlie’s not your conventional mathematician… we sexed him up a little bit.
When I graduated I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn’t want a conventional career.
I think I’m a difficult conventional writer.
The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.
I come from a very conventional and non-political background.
By legitimizing Iran’s nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowing it to obtain conventional weapons and ballistic missiles, this agreement makes the prospect for war more likely, not less.
I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It’s incredible – Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We’ve come to believe – from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists – that there’s another side to be heard.
History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits’ future, spun of ‘conventional wisdom,’ is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
There isn’t much about my life that’s been particularly conventional.
I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it’s a somewhat desiccated form.
