Chris Claremont

When you're given the assignment to write, for example, 'Spider-Man,' the concept, characters and environment are all laid out for you. Everything is pre-established, and your sole responsibility as a creator is to craft an exciting, entertaining, hopefully original adventure, to add layers and colors to a canon that already exists.

British Writer

Diane S. Sykes

We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional sources of law and legal interpretation - text, structure, history, canons of interpretation, precedent, and other well-established tools of the judicial craft - are prioritized, weighted, and applied.

American Judge

Kelsey Grammer

Iago is one of the most liked characters in Shakespeare's canon, and he's the most evil, most extraordinarily manipulative person in history. He says the worst, most politically incorrect things, even for the time the play is set in - and yet audiences adore that character.

American Actor

Megan Follows

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

Canadian Actress

Mary Gordon

Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.

American Writer

A. E. Waite

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

British Author

Kelela

There are no black women geniuses that are being named in canons. I could name a bunch, but it's not part of common knowledge. It's not how the world is taught to think about black women.

American Musician

Andrea Bocelli

A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.

Italian Musician

Munira Mirza

Often, when art from the canon is brought in to fine art classes, it is used as a prop to inspire art-making projects but more rarely as something to study in-depth for itself.

British Public Servant

Paul Dini

When you do an animated series and add characters who are not from the canon, you really have to win over the hardcore fans.

Refers to officially recognized religious writings within a faith.

Religious Texts

Different religions have different canons, which are not interchangeable.

Not Universal

Used to describe foundational rules which guide behavior or an organization.

Guiding Principles

Commonly found in formal texts or discussions about rules.

Formal Context

Highlights works that are culturally or historically significant.

Cultural Importance

Often studied in academic settings due to its recognized value.

Educational Content

Designates a priest with a specific role or position in the church.

Church Roles

Signifies a rank within the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

Hierarchy Signifier

Refers to a contrapuntal composition that builds on a single theme.

Musical Composition

Understanding musical canons requires some knowledge of music theory.

Requires Knowledge

 accident and I discovered that this was referred to in ray canons book as the richest see in the world deserve that name so we wake up in the morning then for the next two hours we were just in and amongst these dolphins they were leaping everywhere you were almost like in a mini storm it was like a tornado it

"Mini-Storm" of Dolphins...

 and computer science. I would even go further and say computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science -- -- because the canon -- computer science -- many of them are great but the canon of computer science prematurely froze a model of computation

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 is the only way that we'll see changes in the art industry, but also for the relations between Africa and the Western canon. How we will participate in all this is really up to us. There's a lot of progress to be made, and honestly, we still need to support stronger voices,

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 could radically transform our knowledge of the past. Imagine what unknown classics we would discover which would rewrite the canons of literature, history, philosophy, music -- or, more provocatively, that could rewrite our cultural identities,

How I'm discovering the...

 know where the world's longest continuous Travis from its highest point it takes seven point eight seconds to fall to the ground and it has many interesting rock formations around it such as fish rock canon rock and totem pole rack

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 after I've put the children to bed, arguing about many fantastical worlds. And I'm always secretly delighted that the people on the other side of the screen could never guess that the fierce figure arguing about Middle Earth canon

The Funding Gap in...

 In Shakespeare's canon, we see Hamlet's indecisiveness lead to a series of bad decisions, or perhaps non-decisions, that culminate in the death of almost every character in the play,

Why tragedies are...

 The dehumanization of an entire population could not be more obvious. Now, contrast that to the first canon of engineering, which, in my opinion, should be the first law of

Science in service to...

 a motion-activated confetti canon ball. But wait, this is actually my favorite project. It's a lobster made of playdough that's afraid of the dark.

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 created us so canon is one of those little babies

Canon