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Quotes About Setup

There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension and setups and payoffs and misdirections and surprising people and sort of pushing the boundary.
~ Jon Watts
A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.
~ Otto Penzler
Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.
~ Jet Li
CHAPTER XXXVII HOW THINGS WERE ARRANGED
~ Anthony Trollope
As a PC gaming enthusiast, a significant chunk of my time and money was spent building and upgrading my rig, always in pursuit of a better gaming experience. At some point, I decided to take a look past my three 3D monitors and figure out what the absolute best theoretical gaming setup would be.
~ Palmer Luckey
When a new object is created, Java allocates storage for it, sets instance variables to their default values, and calls the constructor method for the class to do whatever application-level setup is required.
~ Jonathan Knudsen
A smart person is even more likely to suppose that his brain is equal to the challenges he faces, even such frankly impossible ones. What a setup to send your brain racing! And what will it do when, racing, it realizes the magnitude of its challenges and the extent to which they can't be solved just by thinking? It will worry.
~ Eric Maisel
Now you're trying to set me up with a jewel thief?" "At this point, sir, I would set you up with a chimpanzee if I thought it would bring you back to the world.
~ Greg Cox
I used Malta as a location to shoot a lot of my action sequences, and that's because we don't have the kind of setup that Malta Film Studios does. They have a world-class facility.
~ Vijay Krishna Acharya
The movies that I love and model after, like 'Annie Hall,' 'When Harry Met Sally,' and in particular for me, 'Broadcast News,' are the tone of life, which isn't a setup punch-line every two minutes.
~ Jason Segel
A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.
~ Adam McKay
My parents took me to Sam Ash, and I got a pretty cheap setup - a MIDI keyboard and one of those cheaper mixers - but it was dope, though; it was something. That was kind of how it was: just going to school, skating back home, making music, telling my parents I did my homework.
~ Cuco
To be honest, it's not really hard to run a torrent site, or set one up.
~ Peter Sunde
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behavior in children, and medicate it in adults? That's so random. It's like this whole shady setup.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I briefly considered whether it could be a setup. If they were on to me, though, this was already a pretty perfect venue. They didn't have to convince me to go somewhere else.
~ Barry Eisler
Harry had told me his boss had taken him to Damask Rose to "celebrate" the night Harry had met Yukiko. If the girl had been a setup, Harry's boss must have been complicit. I chewed on that. I thought about going to the guy. I could find out his name, where he lived, brace him one morning on his way to the office.
~ Barry Eisler
My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill.
~ Fergus Henderson
HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us.
~ Merle Haggard
I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.
~ Simon Pegg
Doesn't your work interest you, Esther? You know, Esther, you've got the perfect setup of a true neurotic. You'll never get anywhere like that, you'll never get anywhere like that, you'll never get anywhere like that.
~ Sylvia Plath
I summoned my little chorus of voices. Doesn't your work interest you, Esther? You know, Esther, you've got the perfect setup of a true neurotic. You'll never get anywhere like that, you'll never get anywhere live that, you'll never get anywhere like that.
~ Sylvia Plath
After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.
~ Jhonen Vasquez
All of the Vines that were acted & setup & had nice cameras, those weren't the good Vines. The good Vines were, like, a random little kid in the middle of a forest, like, yelling.
~ Billie Eilish
I hate the term 'work-life balance.' I think it's a setup, and it's trap for all of us.
~ Ruth Porat