Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV – often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like – slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to.
I watch box sets. I worked my way through ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Prison Break.’
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
When you work in film sets, when you’re working on projects that are male dominated, you are always treated as the last priority.
Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn’t do anything except just stand there.
While labour market reports scream with dramatic youth unemployment data, hundreds of employers cry out for employees with the right skills sets. As recruiters, we suffer this shortage every day.
Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.
As a decision maker, you rely on information being passed to you by the people who report to you. As the CEO, however, you cannot rely solely on this information. You also need to ‘dip’ down into your organization and learn directly from employees at all levels and virtually all skill sets.
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.
I went to university – I never would have gone to university through football. I’ve got a degree. I’ve got a master’s. I’ve met some amazing people, I’ve lived my dream. I’ve picked up so many skill sets that I never would have.
Nobody sets out to make a bad record.
In order to be a good director, you also need to be a good entrepreneur because the director is in charge of everything and everyone on the sets.
Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
I was not one of those children hanging on Ma’s coat-tails following her round sets. I’d go to the theatre after school if she was working, but I didn’t even know what an agent was.
Usually, on a show like ‘Game of Thrones,’ you don’t have much time to rehearse; a lot of the sets are not available.
Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.
Having made a real 3D movie, you realize that, right from the production design, you’re designing sets that complement the 3D. You’re designing interactive elements, like rain or smoke – all this particulate matter in the air enhances the 3D. But if you’re shooting in 2D, you don’t know about that.
I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ’cause I’m very smart.
The photograph, the clothes, the sets – this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.
A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance – this peak of ecstasy.
My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central’s main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back – because CBS’ first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people’s television sets used to shake when the trains came in!
There’s a lot of sets where morale is low; people are just a little too mellow, and that’s infectious. So when someone calls ‘Action,’ you have to spike your energy up and fight against the current of the room.
Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver’s licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities.
It’s always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.
On the sets, I am just an actress, and I am okay with whoever I am working with.
Many times, illusions or magic sets are designed as an exposition for the audience to watch, but the the style I do with the pickpocketing is directly interactive.
Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.
The sets of ‘Lootera’ itself transport you to the 15th century, since everything was designed according to that era.
Doing five-minute sets on ‘Conan’ and things like that are fun and a great way to introduce yourself, but it’s such a constricting time, and you usually have to cut bits down.
At Burning Man, the audience is the show: the boundaries between stage and public overlap and melt. Every form of self-expression, every fantasy… everything has a place. It’s kind of a utopia, and everyone who sets foot in it is so impressed that they do their best to respect it and keep it alive.
When I started acting, I did many films without even an idea of what the script was about. The film would start, and then we would discover what we were expected to do on the sets. Those days have changed.
The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.
I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it’s how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we’re meant to be on.
It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in – especially if, like me, you finished school early.
I’m not sure you learn anything on film sets.
I write sets of books, but I’ve also written a lot of orphans.
George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.
If I saw ‘Virgin Suicides’ or ‘Eternal Sunshine,’ I’m so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.
Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.
When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
There is one common thing in superstars – enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.
After marriage, I will have two sets of parents who are proud of me. And I also know that I won’t do anything that will embarrass them. That is the trust they have in me and the responsibility that I have as a wife, friend, and also as an artiste.
I don’t think I’m yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it – but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute.
I’ve worked in predominately male sets my entire life. Shakespeare? Let’s talk about that.
Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That’s what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn’t write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.
Both Everton and City have fantastic sets of fans who really get behind the players.
When you’re picking up and moving, it does create… well, I can sleep anywhere, which is really useful, it turns out, on movie sets. But what it really does is teach you how to adapt and change and fit into a new group or school, and that really is a lot like turning up to a new movie project and finding your place.
I love matching workout sets. There’s something about looking good and feeling good, as cheesy as that sounds, and it always makes my run seem a little better.
I think the way poems are taught to high school students is completely counterintuitive; it sets up this sense of being the poem’s adversary. The poem is sort of sneakily trying to outsmart you.
Aamir Khan in a sense, was my first teacher for filmmaking. He used to answer my doubts on the sets of ‘Joh Jeeta Wahi Sikander.’
My mother takes care of my health. She makes sure that the food cooked is in olive oil. She takes charge of our health also because my dad is a heart patient. So on sets, I do take care of myself. But at home, it’s my mother who is the boss of our health!
The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the Beloved has to face countless difficulties. But he brakes them all for the sake of the Beloved.
I think the sea swallowed dozens of tea sets – tossed in abandon off liners or consigned to the tide by jilted brides. I collected a shiver of china bits, with borders of larkspur and birds or braids of daisies. No two patterns ever matched.
I don’t like stuff that can only go into one set; I want stuff that can be applied across sets. It’s a more real Lego building experience. And, of course, it’s the same from a manufacturing point of view. I want elements that are universal; that gives me the best economics and best utilisation of the mould.
