My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn’t to say that there aren’t parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don’t know them.
The mood of the country is set by its leaders and they are failing us by not setting a compassionate moral tone in a complex time.
It weighs on me that I played a pivotal role in setting up a company that I think has done a lot of harm to the democratic process in a lot of countries.
I sometimes detect that a type of regional divide is setting in, and there is a lack of real Caribbean connection among the islands, and I am concerned about this.
Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They’d earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet.
Unlike Marvel, we are not setting up redundant organizations for expertise that exists. We will track all DC properties to measure financial success.
After a couple of years in a professional setting, you’ll get used to dressing presentably, preparing for meetings, speaking appropriately, showing up on time, writing professional correspondence, etc.
A lot of people make the mistake of setting the bar too high.
The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling – to get yourself outside.
United are capable of setting up a low block and making it difficult, but they’re also capable of coming out and pressing high.
I have an art magazine about drag called ‘Velour,’ named after myself, and I have a monthly show called ‘Nightgowns’ that curates and presents some of the most creative and high-quality drag in a professional theater setting.
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No – no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Sherpa were always involved with the setting of the lines, but they never got the platform to tell any story, I think. And so these people have always remained in the shadow. But now obviously with the internet, the whole platform and everything, people can hold a light these days.
I like serving family-style or setting up a buffet. Everyone just goes to town, scoops their own food, and mixes their own drinks. You know how people love to come and watch you in the kitchen now and talk your ear off? If you give them something to do and something to drink, they don’t do that as much.
Whenever you’re blessed and given a second season, you can really let the characters evolve. That first season, you’re setting everything up. It’s background, where they’re coming from, what they want to do. And then you get to marinate in it that second season.
The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
By reducing trade barriers, improving intellectual-property protections, and setting international rules of the road, TTIP has the potential to improve America and Europe’s global competitiveness and strengthen their comparative advantages.
I’m a type of player that tries to do everything a lot to help our team. Setting screens to get guys open, trying to block shots.
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition.
You can probably ask any actor: every time you start a new film, it’s literally like your first movie. Everyone, regardless of the filmmaker being a debutant or a veteran, takes their time to settle down when you begin the shoot together. It’s like all of us have moved into a new house, and we are setting up the place.
We’ve always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.
I don’t regret setting bombs.
Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.
Could I stay at Bayern my entire career? I’m not the type of person who looks that far ahead. I am setting short-term goals instead.
I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.
With most of my books, I’ll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.
Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed to be racing each other to the bottom. Setting up One Big Regulator would end that problem.
When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.
Turnberry is truly one of the most spectacular properties on earth. The views, the setting, and grandeur of the hotel – there’s just nothing else like it. We’ve respected the architectural history of the hotel first and foremost, but most of all, we’ve respected the tradition of golf at Turnberry.
We’re really lucky because we have a portable studio, which enables us to work wherever we like. There is some extra work involved in setting everything up, but you can find a lot of magic and inspiration in being free to go somewhere completely different.
As a youngster, when I was active in church, I had a lot of fun choosing and hanging massive stars and making the cribs. I was also very involved in the Christmas plays, though not as an actor, but I took joy in setting up the props.
In 13 years of doing my day job, I’ve learned a few things about motivating people. It’s about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they’re doing what they’re doing, you achieve that vision.
We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you’re anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.
Whether it’s possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that’s not even your area.
When I was growing up I didn’t know what it meant to be a happy, successful grown-up gay person, and now I do. I feel like I’m setting an example for people everywhere.
When the opportunity came up to do social justice work for the New School in an academic setting, and still be able to support the mayor and be part of the de Blasio family, it was kind of a no-brainer for me.
The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone’s passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don’t get the best work from people if you’re guiding them versus them guiding themselves.
I look at performance clothes as setting the mood for the whole show.
There have been prank shows that have been really elaborate, setting up fake car accidents and burglars. For us, we wanted to strip it down completely, didn’t want to do anything that someone else couldn’t do – a lot like the Jerky Boys.
Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!
I ain’t got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that’s a whole world of trouble I ain’t got no business setting foot in. And you know what? It feels good.
For 30 years, which I never talked about in Hollywood, I actually worked with doctors lecturing and doing some medical intuitive counseling both in a medical setting and for the community at large.
One fear setting on filmmakers is that the audience no longer has any patience. They want things to constantly move.
The thing about having an amazing stylist – it’s not about who is better: it’s more so about your body type finding amazing pieces, but also, setting the tone for what people believe is your life. It’s like the editing of a movie or the color-correcting of a photo.
The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create ‘characters’ in a ‘setting’ who speak ‘dialogue’ encased in ‘scenes.’ Most importantly, you – like the playwright – have an ‘audience.’
You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.
I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community – the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don’t know what it would be like.
The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.
