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• I think it's hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Thinking, Community, Nuance

  "Edwidge Danticat: The “Create Dangerously” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. November 23, 2010.

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• The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, School, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I watched the early morning light pass over and through the windows of colored glass, leaving streaks of red and green and yellow on the stone floor. When I was little, I used to try and capture the colored light. I thought I could hold it in my hand and carry it home. Now I know it is like happiness-- it is there or it is not, you cannot hold it or keep it.

  Karen Cushman

  Morning, Home, Yellow

  Karen Cushman (2014). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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• To spend your days in the company of naked men - that was the life for me. 'Turn a bit to the left, Jean-Claude. I long to capture the playful quality of your buttocks.

  David Sedaris

  Men, Long, Quality

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• I think summer, at least as I've experienced it, can be joyous but it can also be tough emotionally. Physically, it can be hot to the point of being unbearable and I think you want to capture that frustration, but also the release.

  Rostam Batmanglij

  Summer, Thinking, Frustration

  Source: www.elle.com

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• This whole business of all these lenses is ridiculous. You know, it's like you have to capture your picture. You have to create it. You have to see it. You have to seize it and you have to move in to get it, so those lenses are just an escape of some sort or a shield.

  Carol Friedman

  Moving, Lenses, Shields

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for the zoo trade must often kill all the adults in the family to capture the baby.

  Sy Montgomery

  Baby, Zoos, Fighting

  Sy Montgomery (2009). “Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas”, p.42, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It's also a "forever document" that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people?

  Brendon Burchard

  Good Life, Book, Writing

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• John Farrar, my dear friend and songwriter/producer of most of my hits (he wrote "You're The One That I Want" and "Hopelessly Devoted to You," among others), wrote the song ["I Think You Might Like It"] and it captures so much fun and joy! Having that reunion as well, with John and John - made the project even more special!

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, Fun, Thinking

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• I don't know that Brandy [Burre] would ever categorize herself as being trapped, but I felt like I saw her being trapped. When she's cleaning the room and she puts the labels on the toys, that was something that my wife, who's also friends with Brandy, was very adamant that we try to capture. My wife said that showed to her Brandy's creative outlet because she can't be creative in the ways that she used to be or that she maybe wants to be in the future.

  Robert Greene

  Wife, Creative, Trying

  Source: www.cineaste.com

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• I do a lot of walking around in game parks, rain forests, places like that, but it's not like I'm camping in them as much as my day walks. I've done that all over the world, not like with a backpack on my back living out in the woods for several days. When I travel abroad, it's more the city that captures my interest.

  Henry Rollins

  Rain, Games, Cities

  "Henry Rollins and a Whole Lot of Snakes". Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. April 29, 2011.

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• I did not have any philosophy at all when I wrote the first novel. I was just wanting to capture experiences that I thought would be inspiring for Indians who are trying to break free from the very high-pressured family environments and do their own thing.

  Karan Bajaj

  Philosophy, Trying, Would Be

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Dancing in public spaces and moving your body freely in a public space is reclaiming what was taken from you when you were violated. The energy of that - you can't capture it, you can't own it. Capitalists can't buy it.It can't be sold. It can't be monetized. And that's why I think it's so powerful.

  Eve Ensler

  Powerful, Moving, Taken

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I realize that labels are placed upon an individual to simplify him or her, but it is impossible to capture the essence of an individual by a few words.

  Joanna Lohman

  Essence, Few Words, Labels

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• Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.

  Dan Brown

  Tragedy, Angels And Demons, Interest

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• You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

  Kim Edwards

  Time, Father, Rain

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.297, Penguin

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• I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.

  Jon Weisman

  Adventure, Mind, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Most of the people I've been fortunate enough to work with all share the same passion for creativity, for ingenuity, for playing make-believe and really just having fun. It doesn't matter if we're blowing up cars, or shooting an emotional scene in a police station, deep inside we all know our imaginations are at work, and our imaginations are manifesting into reality - at least momentarily for the cameras to capture.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Fun, Believe, Passion

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark stuff, some sad stuff, and a lot of painful memories, because my life has often been dark, sad, and painful. I didn't want to sugarcoat anything.

  Kate Christensen

  Memories, Writing, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Perhaps adding a line or two of dialogue to try to better capture an emotion. But I've found that if the story isn't there in the beginning, right from the start, I generally can't beat it into shape no matter how much rewriting I do.

  Mary J. Miller

  Two, Trying, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?

  L. Todd Rose

  Discovery, Average, Data

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader of the Labour Party. I was disappointed - but not at all surprised - at the complete absence of intellectual curiosity on display. The second objective I had to try to capture for posterity the excitement and spirit of the first Corbyn campaign. Those moments when the impossible suddenly becomes possible are so powerful to those who experience them. I think it's politically valuable to relive such moments, to learn the lessons of what went right.

  Alex Nunns

  Powerful, Party, Book

  Source: salvage.zone

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• It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music that actually took me places.

  Bucky Pope

  Feelings, Sound, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we're going to find out everything they know, because when I'm president, unlike Barack Obama, we will keep this country safe.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Isis, President

  Marco Rubio's speech at the main Republican Presidential debate hosted by Fox News and Google the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2016.

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