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• Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don't make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author's mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, 'Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?'. Monet would be ripping his hair out.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Stupid, Book, Mean

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• Larousse Gastronomique has always been the first and last word on classic European techniques and recipes. I love that it has expanded its reach to cover world cuisines and modern culinary innovations, making it more indispensable than ever.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Innovation, Technique, World

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• The Classic Notting Hill junkie, i.e; Armani underwear, Pink's shirt and Burberry belt tourniquets

  Tyne O'Connell

  Underwear, Hills, Notting Hill

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• The real problem is that the financial base for our social security system is shrinking because the number of normal jobs is falling. In other words, we have to address the challenge of how to make employment, in the classic sense, attractive once again.

  Angela Merkel

  Jobs, Real, Fall

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• Italians stay so true to their classic silhouettes and the things that they've always done.

  Candice Huffine

  Done, Silhouettes

  "Plus-Size Model Candice Huffine Has Launched Her Own Collection and It's Fabulous". Interview with Lauren Chan, www.glamour.com. May 6, 2015.

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• I love classic looks and I love glamour. I love being able to switch to a classic day to a really really nice glamorous look at night.

  Erin Brady

  Nice, Night, Love Is

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.

  Diane Kruger

  Cutting, Style, Dresses

  "Meet Diane Kruger, Our Style Icon". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Moments, Term

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  War, Hero, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Kind, Pity, Retarded

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I came out of film school and went after movies that I thought audiences wanted to see or that the studios wanted, as opposed to the movies that I wanted. Over the last 10 years, I've gravitated more and more toward the films that I grew up loving - classic Spielberg, Lucas, James Cameron and Ridley Scott movies.

  Simon Kinberg

  School, Years, Lasts

  "Producer Roundtable: 6 Filmmakers on 'Compton' Threats, Tarantino Outbursts and the Truth Behind a 'Star Wars' 'Firing'". Interview with Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2015.

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• The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

  Ann Widdecombe

  War, Book, School

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• Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick.

  Barack Obama

  Holiday, Gimmicks, Taxes

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• We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

  Otto Schily

  Military, War, Soldier

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• Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of France in the summer!

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Summer, Dirty, Rotten

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• When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.

  Reid Hoffman

  Mistake, Ideas, People

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• My core competency has really informed my painting. The roots of editing stem from classical paintings - classic painters intended to drive your eye from this conflict to that intrigue, ending with a caprice. That is a montage, that is editing. It became a flipbook in later generations.

  Billy Zane

  Eye, Editing, Roots

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.

  Conor McPherson

  Beautiful, Country, House

  "Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of 'The Eclipse'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. March 25, 2010.

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• Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean "becoming a Christian from cold." In the classic Reformed tradition, the word "justification" is much more fine-tuned than that and has to do with a verdict which is pronounced, rather than with something happening to you in terms of actually being born again. So that I'm actually much closer to some classic Reformed writing on this than some people perhaps realize.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Mean, Writing

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• I'm a classic movie person. I love action movies, too, but when I grew up I didn't have much action movies.

  Bruno Zheng Wu

  Action, Classic Movie, Grew Up

  Source: deadline.com

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• Directly down the lawn and accross the Ellipse from the White House are those ordered, classic lines of the Jefferson Memorial and the eyes of the 19-foot statue that gaze directly into the White House, a reminder to any of us who might occupy that mansion of the quality of mind and generosity of heart that once abided there and has been so rarely seen there again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Eye, Heart, White

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Once again, in the fine tradition of North Texas Lab Bands, this is truly a superb band. Under the artful leadership of Neil Slater, these great musicians have managed to combine small group "openness" with the swinging precision of a classic big band. Very enjoyable!

  Michael Brecker

  Texas, Musician, Groups

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• Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Selfish, Example, Fiction

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• Lobsters displays all three of the classic biological characteristics of an insect, namely: 1. It has way more legs than necessary. 2. There is no way you would ever pet it. 3. It does not respond to simple commands such as "Here, boy!"

  Dave Barry

  Boys, Simple, Pet

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.110, Ballantine Books

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• I love Thandie Newton. I love her fashion sense as she is just really classic.

  Leona Lewis

  Fashion, Newton

  "EXCLUSIVE: Leona Lewis Interview". Glamour Interview, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. September 7, 2011.

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