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Tradition Quotes

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.

Work Tradition Help You Play Never

The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.

American Tradition Disagreement Rests

Even though there's a lot of horror from Asia in the American cinematic tradition, I hadn't seen Asians at the center of it.

American Tradition Horror Seen Even

Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.

Beautiful Tradition Shapes Decorating

Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.

Tradition Party Democratic Maryland

It's true that many of the best-known composers were German or Austrian, but we should remember how good the music tradition is in Britain, too, because it has an informality and a fluidity that should really be celebrated.

Good Music Tradition Remember True

The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.

Technology Government City Tradition

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

Anthony Kennedy

Responsibility Tradition Easy Been

One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce, is that they were in the tradition of the one-man show. That's why Richard Pryor was so great, and George Carlin, too. They prowled the stage, they used voices, they were really talents.

Great Genius Tradition Why Stage

It's still the tradition for various football powerhouses to pay guarantees to schools with cream-puff teams to come on over to our place and submit to massacre.

Football Tradition Place Over Pay

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Tradition Dead Come Soon Recognized

Shows like 'All in the Family' and now 'Mom' - there's a tradition of tackling real issues.

Family Mom Tradition Now Real Like

Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.

Proud Tradition Committee Minnesota

Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition.

Wynton Marsalis

Music American Musicians Tradition

The American war-writing tradition is a proud one and booming in this era of the Global War on Terror - at least in the nonfiction realm. Hundreds of memoirs and press accounts from Iraq and Afghanistan have been published since 9/11.

War Proud American Tradition Been

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.

Future Great Believe Tradition Go

My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume each year and typically gets carried away. A couple of Christmases ago he appeared in an inflatable sumo outfit. It's endearing, really, and only quite embarrassing.

Pippa Middleton

Father Dress Tradition Year Outfit

Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.

Jeff Fortenberry

Faith Broken Tradition Dying Middle

In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.

World Color America Tradition Long

Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus' Idylls to John Milton's 'Lycidas' and Percy Shelley's 'Adonais.'

Nature Writing Tradition Long Dead

There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.

John Prendergast

Impact Tradition Long Places Popular

The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

Music Society Think Tradition Place

Over the years, Good Deeds Day has annually gained greater popularity, spreading beyond geographical boundaries to include many more countries worldwide. International Good Deeds Day has become a global annual tradition of giving.

Good Day Giving Tradition Become

I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of a mark on the course of American music, particularly in the tradition of what you might call the singer-songwriter.

Music American Tradition Trying You

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