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Quotes About Location

By the way, where is the bitch?" Giles had thought there was nothing his sister could ever say that would shock him. How wrong he was. "I've no idea," he eventually managed. "She hasn't been in contact with me for over a year. But if you believe the Daily Express, she's currently to be found in St. Tropez on the arm of an Italian
~ Jeffrey Archer
Hellfire missiles, the explosives fired from drones, are not always fired at people. In fact most drone strikes are aimed at phones. The SIM card provides a person's location; when turned on, a phone can become a deadly proxy for the individual being hunted. When a night raid or drone strike successfully neutralizes a target's phone, operators call that a "touchdown.
~ Jeremy Scahill
As I said last week, I wash my mind all over the place. Since the idea—and ideal—is to erase myself from wherever and whenever I am, I think I should not allow myself to become too attached to any one location, not even Enchanted Hill, as I call it now, or to any particular time of day or night.
~ Jerry Spinelli
station on Cape Cod looks close to where you are. It's in a place called Wellfleet.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
And yet, certain physical aspects of Rhode Island—a state so small within the context of America that on some maps its landmass was indicated only by an arrow pointing to its location—corresponded roughly to those of Calcutta, within India. Mountains to the north, an ocean to the east, the majority of land to the south and west.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.
~ Lou Reed
It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.
~ Mary Steenburgen
Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.
~ Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.
~ Ralph Fiennes
I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.
~ Rupert Friend
It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.
~ Sarah Shahi
In some markets, we don't have a lot of room to expand. We've done studies of store density and essentially found our more dense markets have more than one store per 15,000 people.
~ Fred DeLuca
My Miyoshi studio in Japan is located in the northern part of Saitama, which puts it in quite close proximity to Fukushima. As such, we can feel the effects of radiation.
~ Takashi Murakami
The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
~ James Young
A studio allows me more freedom. You can create your own sort of reality which is actually more exciting than shooting on location. You can conjure up a complete atmosphere of escapism for the public.
~ Ken Adam
New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.
~ Gary Johnson
Juhu is really close to the airport and it's also very close to the film studios.
~ Raj Kundra
You could cast nearly any movie in Brooklyn, and now you can film in Brooklyn - for you have studios.
~ Peter Hedges
I think there are sometimes issues with - no matter where you put a conference, there's always going to be constraints on that. For example, sometimes students studying in the U.S. have trouble leaving the U.S. to go to a conference. So if you hold it outside the U.S. in a particular place, that sometimes creates complications.
~ Jeff Dean
People always tell me the next stage of my career means moving to New York, but I never will. I don't care how that affects my career, and I think it's stupid that it would.
~ Sarah Lacy
I've never detected a correlation between where I am and what I write. I think there could be something subconscious, though. And I can't really speak for my subconscious.
~ Bill Callahan
Typically, writers meet their subjects at a neutral location - somewhere a publicist has chosen to reveal something about the celebrity, like his taste in food or hobbies or charitable work.
~ Mina Kimes
I think that racism has gotten more subtle, and it's not even racism anymore: it's placism. Like where you live or whether you went to community college or Harvard, and it exists within the race.
~ Esai Morales
If you're a suburban kid, and you're 30 minutes from New York City, that's the luckiest thing in the world.
~ Adam Pally