Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.
The very definition of ‘blackness’ is as broad as that of ‘whiteness,’ yet we’re seemingly always trying to find a specific, limited definition.
No I don’t really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.
Comedy and horror are cousins; they’re related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.
To record an album and stick to one specific style isn’t really my thing.
The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don’t think it’s a problem that’s specific to black women. I think it’s a problem that’s specific to movie-making in America.
Some people in Silicon Valley are as bad as the ‘Koch Brothers’, you know? Don’t be mistaken. For every some of those, though, you get people who come up with something like ‘Leafly’, which does what ‘Yelp’ has done, but in a much more specific way, and it’s important because it’s the dawn of this new era.
Disaffection, alienation and conspiracy theories are commonplace among European Muslims, but dangerous Islamist radicalism and the Islamic State’s ‘foreign fighter’ recruitment successes tend to be specific to certain European towns, districts and ghettos.
Shooting a fight is like shooting any other scene. You have to tell a story using a very specific choreography.
With the theatre, for God’s sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.
I’ve always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
It is the forces of the universe that make human beings fall ill. Having learnt to recognize how sun qualities and moon qualities live in plants, animals and minerals, we discover how we can find counterforces and also individual natural forces that point us towards medicines for specific internal illnesses.
I don’t believe I’m psychic, but if I can get people to focus on a specific thought, I can hack into brains and figure out what they’re thinking.
I’ve always dressed the same. I’ve never made a fashion mistake. I’ve always worn utilitarian. I started my collection because I wanted certain specific things, but before that it was vintage and classic Brooks Brothers.
Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.
Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.
The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.
There isn’t a specific person in my mind that I’d want to play. Yet.
I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they’re talking about me for.
I didn’t know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.
Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That’s kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.
I’m comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn’t see what I do as controversial.
For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.
I think you can tell when a New York show isn’t shot in the city. It’s so iconic and has such a specific energy.
I always encourage people to learn the basics and nail the basics. Take the time to customize your resume and cover letter to reflect your qualifications, your research on the specific company and position, and how you believe you can add value.
I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.
I think it’s an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.
A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it’s essentially about girls, guns, gadgets, and big action.
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
In the early Seventies, the technology for purifying a specific eukaryotic mRNA was just becoming available.
There’s no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time.
People get caught up in asking whether Americans should be going here or there. What it boils down to is the call of the Lord. If the Lord has called you to a specific area, that’s where you are going to see the fruit.
There’s sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors are and try to make the roles more specific to what they bring and what they can do.
Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
I haven’t been out in the marketplace in a while. I’m thinking about going back into it. I’ve got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It’s mysterious to me.
From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don’t write political plays.
Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear.
We have very specific rules about how we go to market with children, and I think they are very responsible.
I’ve always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they’re invested and how specific they are.
I’m not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn’t mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.
I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it’s not censorship.
I love trawling through markets and vintage shops, and I make super-quick decisions about buying clothes. I also have my usual haunts I go to when in specific cities.
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.
I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it’s going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show.
Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.
While men’s rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women’s equal rights aren’t mentioned.
The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy – a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual or group while also reaching a wide audience.
