For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way. – Simon Beaufoy
The ‘Evening News’ is going to have a long run, both as a broadcast and as a presence online and on cellphones. It is a franchise with a very rich tradition. – Steve Capus
Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being ‘an expression of Turkish genius’ that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition. – Stephen Kinzer
There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair. – Ted Rall
Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be made. – Stephen Kinzer
I don’t like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don’t like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there’s a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside. – Victoria de los Angeles
There is clearly a Christian New Testament tradition that warns against praying loudly in the front of the temple where everyone can see you. – Tim Kaine
The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn’t really have that present in my house. – Ta-Nehisi Coates