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• The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

  Andre Gide

  Character, Voice, Novelists

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• The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral questions...in our heads seem to rise to the surface as a consequence of the process

  William Kentridge

  Drawing, Way, Moral

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• I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthromorphic image of God. I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Stars, Believe, Heart

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• Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Evil, Arches, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 295, 1895.

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• Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Men, Gentleman, Males

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.232, Bantam

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• Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Character, Color, Imagination

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Character, Skeletons, Hands

  Robert Aris Willmott (1858). “Summer Time in the Country”, p.44

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• Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.

  Tom Bergeron

  Success, Failure, Humor

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• Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Greatness, Men

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• A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Men, Player

  Table Talk "The Indian Jugglers" (1822)

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• I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.

  Dale Spender

  Reality, People, Events

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• You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.

  Jerry Stahl

  Drama, Needs

  "Jerry Stahl Talks Smack". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2013.

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• Religion is an irrational construct.

  Michel Onfray

  Irrational

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• You do need some successes as a young person. They don't inflate the ego necessarily, they just give you identity and ego structure. But, don't construct your life around creating those. Or you will become narcissistic and ego-centric. That won't get you anywhere.

  Richard Rohr

  Creating, Giving, Ego

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

  Lisa Unger

  Believe, Character, People

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• Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world.

  Diego Della Valle

  Children, Home, Citizens

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• Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Creative, Environment, Process

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• Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.

  Berenice Abbott

  Hurt, Self, Understanding

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• Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

  Albert Einstein

  Common Sense, Doe, Fields

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• ... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

  George Eliot

  Selfish, Gentleman, Vices

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.354

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• It is easy to substitute our will for that of the child by means of suggestion or coercion; but when we have done this we have robbed him of his greatest right, the right to construct his own personality.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Mean, Personality

  MARIA MONTESSORI “HER LIFE AND WORK”

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• True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.

  Edward Albee

  Character, Play, Ideas

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.62, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Jobs, Editors, Narrative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

  Francis Bacon

  Reality, Matter, Structure

  Francis Bacon, Rudy Chiappini, Palazzo reale di Milano (2008). “Bacon”, Skira - Berenice

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• I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

  Carol Shields

  Mother, Thinking, Discovery

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