Quotes About Context

Everyone's saying I'm hating on Seattle, but they're taking that out of context. What I really meant to say was I'm the only new wave artist to really break out of Seattle.

We cannot do justice to the deeds of former times if we do not in some degree remove ourselves from the circumstances in which we stand and substitute those by which the real actors were surrounded.

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

We cannot just ape the west. What may be good in an alien country may be unpalatable in India.

There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and generally they're safe. But if you look at Walt Disney's original films, at the time and in the context, they weren't safe. They were really dark and troubling.

'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them.

I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on.

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

I really think we have a future ahead of us where chat is obviously a big part of it, but I don't think the context of having that little assistant in your pocket is necessarily the only place where it will be.

Reading what a good shot is, based on time and score of the game, based on the shot clock, based on my position - there's a lot of things that go into it. It's a lot of things that you think about based on when to shoot it or when not to.

What I've always said about comedy is if you do it in the right way, you can say anything to anybody because they know where you're coming from. They know it's not malicious.

I think art always comments on the time and place it was created.

Our lives don't make sense in abstraction, only when compared with the lives of others.

In one era, it's hard enough to compare people. But comparing people of different eras... that's next to impossible.

I don't like comparisons with Merckx or any other rider because we're talking about different eras, so it doesn't make any sense.

Time is always a component of place; you can't really talk about where without talking about when.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

Conditions impact the behaviour of people.

Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.

Some of the words that pop up on the show have had terrible connotations. But that's the beauty of 'Countdown.'

We don't see the Bible as it is itself. We see it in relation to a lot of people who surround it. And because we don't care for some of them, we think we shouldn't care for it.