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I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
Presidential candidates don't get quite the upward favorable rating surge they used to after their nominating conventions.
As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.
I spoke at a number of conventions, like for pharmacists and cosmetologists, so I've done a lot of public speaking in my life.
As a country we have more of a political constitution than a legal one, and as such it operates via conventions and precedents.
A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control.
I love going to conventions, and I love spending time with the fans and going to parts of the world where I wouldn't normally go.
One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.
Sci-fi conventions are probably the most fun, the most out-of-the-box, entertaining week or weekend you've ever had in your life.
I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.
People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.
I've lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can't repress my inclination to work against conventions.
There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.
Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions.
I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.
We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.
When we speak of institutions, economists mean more than just organizations. We mean conventions, even rules, about how things are done.
The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.
We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.
I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling.
All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of familiarity.
I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
A lot of people bring it to me at conventions. At first I was going, "I can't sign that. That's not me." And now I just say, "Eh, whatever."
Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.
Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it.
In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.
I go to these horror conventions all the time, and these audiences get so deep into it. They've pulled apart every movie fifty ways from Sunday.
Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.
Not enough countries, not enough armies, not enough armed groups are abiding by the fundamental human values enshrined in the Geneva Conventions.
At one of the first science fiction conventions I ever went to, I saw a guy wearing a sandwich board promoting his book. Count me out of that one.
One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.
Well, conventions are so cool, because I just feel like I'm giving out smiles all day, it's so fun, and you get people who are hysterically crying.
There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would it be like if I were a werewolf?'
I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.
I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.
Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.
Now, national conventions are largely an excuse for companies and party leaders to throw parties for delegates to attend, to network and have a good time.
But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
Sci-fi fans are the most loyal fans on the planet - there's no doubt about it. I've done a few of those conventions, and these people will know the lines!
From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.
[Democratic National Convention] was high, it was exciting. The hotel that I stayed at, they had music in the lobby and [Hillary] Clinton life size cutouts.
The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.
Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.
Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext.
I first heard about 'Stranger Things' from people dressed as the characters coming up to me at conventions saying, 'Hey, you have to see this show. It's 'Goonies.'
First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.