I always get worried about disrupting continuity. I seem to get blamed for that a lot.
But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or revelation, just relentlessly and meaninglessly. No more rain showers in the desert, just mud and drizzle everywhere, occasionally illuminated by the flash of paparazzi.
There is enormous continuity beneath the day-to-day news that makes America that indispensable nation when it comes to maintaining order and promoting prosperity around the world.
Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans, late sexual maturity, and a complex and extensive social existence. . . Our protracted biological and psychological helplessness, which extends well into the third year of life, intensifies the bond between infant and parents, making possible a sense of generational continuity. In contrast to other primates these bonds are not obliterated after sexual maturity.
People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.
I think that sometimes people fear continuity because it can turn into repetition - and there's a lot of artists who are really good at creating something new all the time. But for me it's about the consistency in my story. Because after all, I'm the protagonist in everything. All the songs are about my life so naturally there will be some connection because I'm still the same person I've always been.
Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement.
The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.
Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.
I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.
My favorite thing in moviemaking is to shoot in chronological order if at all possible, because it just helps for continuity and all the logistical purposes. It also helps with performance and the journey of each character, but I also think it's good for the director and everyone [else] involved.
When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.
It helps to know there is going to be continuity.
Most of the people are no thicker than Formica, yet they hunger obscurely for some continuity with the place and with each other.
Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.
It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.