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Unlike traditional nursing homes, Green House homes provide elders with a high quality of life and quality of care in a setting that feels like a real home. By altering the facility size, interior design, staffing patterns and service-delivery method, the Green House model provides residents better, safer and more personalized care. (Setting Quotes)
On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o’clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk to the other end of town, as the big harbour is just the right setting for buying a Christmas tree. We spend hours choosing, looking at every branch suspiciously. It’s always cold. (Setting Quotes)
I’ve always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens. (Setting Quotes)
I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn’t going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know. (Setting Quotes)
Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there’s got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while. (Setting Quotes)
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can’t really do much with those in a fantasy setting. (Setting Quotes)
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. (Setting Quotes)
Happy Birthday to you hope your day is full of fun, and a day of laughter until the setting of the sun. (Setting Quotes)
Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you’re setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones. (Setting Quotes)
The most remote place I’ve been to was in Greenland. I remember setting out for a solo hike from a small cabin, itself several hours’ boat ride from the nearest settlement. (Setting Quotes)
The sun setting on the Ucayali, with the Andean foothills in the background, and the taste of freshly cut papaya in my mouth, restoring a body utterly shattered, made for one of those ‘ones to tell the grandchildren’ memories. (Setting Quotes)
I can’t imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. (Setting Quotes)
A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there’s all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none come to mind just now. (Setting Quotes)
Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although ‘Tsotsi’ the book was written in the 60s, it was only published in the 80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance. (Setting Quotes)
Seize the Story’ takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it’s definitely written for teenagers. (Setting Quotes)
I don’t know quite how a story develops in my head. It is a bit chaotic. If I am working on a series, one of the main characters at least is already in existence as well as some setting and minor characters. Finding the other main character can be a challenge. Sometimes this character already exists in a minor role in another book. (Setting Quotes)
You try to make the most of each day. I’m not big into setting real specific goals. I think, really, if you just focus on every day - and I know that’s the oldest cliche in the book, but it really is true. Day 1 of camp means just as much as Day 17 of camp. If you really try to focus on each and every one of those days, long-term. (Setting Quotes)
My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner plates while setting out bowls for breakfast; making sure we ate our breakfast while lining up bread, lunch meats, apples, and snacks assembly-line style so we could make our lunches. (Setting Quotes)
There’s something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you’re playing team sports, people think you’re okay. (Setting Quotes)
India offers exciting business opportunities owing to the growth in corporate travel and a significant middle-class population waiting to explore the world. To begin with, Travelex is setting up eight city centre branches in metros and other major cities including tourist destinations. (Setting Quotes)
There’s an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story. (Setting Quotes)
Investment is crucial. Because the truth is, you only get jobs and growth in the economy when people invest money, at their own risk, in setting up a business or expanding an existing business. (Setting Quotes)
The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible. (Setting Quotes)
If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can’t let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high. (Setting Quotes)
When you’re setting up a budget, a general rule is to start with your fixed expenses - your housing and insurance payments, and car payment, if you own one. (Setting Quotes)
There’s a tendency, when you’re directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there’s too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you. (Setting Quotes)
We all get caught up in what we’re doing that we forget to start setting ourselves up for the future. (Setting Quotes)
I’ve always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things. (Setting Quotes)
Your life will change for the better when you finally accept and deal with the fact that you have a chronic attraction to poisonous people. Face it. Fight it. Defeat it. Setting a better standard shapes a better life. (Setting Quotes)
I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about. (Setting Quotes)