Setups Quotes

• You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.

  Joel Osteen

  Tough Times, May, Comeback

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• Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Real, Mistake, Writing

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• God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you!

  Paula White

  Waiting, Enemy, Turns

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• What invariably distinguishes a good player from a poor one is their respective address positions or setups.

  David Leadbetter

  Player, Addresses, Poor

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• Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Order, Cameras, Looks

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

  Julian Fellowes

  Mean, World, Truth Is

  "Julian Fellowes On The Rules Of 'Downton'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 11, 2012.

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• 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

  Long, Different, Needs

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• There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Stories, Knockouts

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

  Norm MacDonald

  Perfect, Would Be, Lines

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• Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.

  William Raspberry

  Life, Moving, Loss

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• April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Crazy, Spring, Passion

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.

  Simon Pegg

  Watches, Lines, Firsts

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• The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Laughing, Challenges, Pages

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, Ive wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy

  Dad, Kids, Wanted

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• Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Selfish, Health, Goal

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• Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

  Bill Burr

  Acting, Routine, Comedy

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.

  Kevin Leman

  Teenager, Argument, Darling

  Kevin Leman (2011). “Have a New Teenager by Friday: From Mouthy and Moody to Respectful and Responsible in 5 Days”, p.135, Baker Books

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• Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary; the baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into the pouch, and proceeds to mature. I'd have a baby if it would develop in my handbag.

  Rita Rudner

  Baby, Pregnancy, Two

  "Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature". Book by Rita Rudner, 1992.

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• Porgy is...an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen, a man who should never have attempted it has written a work that has a considerable power.

  George Gershwin

  Men, Interesting, Example

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• When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you re-light it and shoot everything else from the opposite side, so it's really important that you stick exactly to what's written. But with the multi-camera digital setup, you're getting both sides of the scene at the same time, so it gives you that freedom to go off-book.

  Chris Pratt

  Book, Opposites, Light

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2009.

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• But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.

  Roone Arledge

  Organization, People, Creative

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• I saw 'Captain America' in 3D. It's cool. I liked the beginning. It's a really good setup.

  Theo James

  America, Saws, Captains

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• Your setback is just a setup for your comeback.

  Steve Harvey

  Comeback, Setback

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• I'm very lucky that I have this other career that runs alongside my comic career, which is a film career, and I've been given this really lovely setup where they seem to make the movies very quickly as well.

  Mark Millar

  Running, Careers, Lovely

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I love the finished product, but I find working in the studio a chore - I use an old-fashioned setup, so the recording process can be frustrating.

  Max Tundra

  Use, Process, Old Fashioned

  Source: pitchfork.com

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