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• I always attempt to challenge and upend discourses that appear to be disinterestedly describing the world, but that are in fact wholly grounded in historically and culturally specific hegemonic modes of thought.

  Richard Marshall

  Challenges, World, Facts

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing

  Jacob Bannon

  Song, Emotional, Titles

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I just go for what makes me feel good. Especially in 2011, it's so easy to sound like a dickhead when describing yourself because anything anyone says is a catch-word or a buzz-phrase.

  Mike Tucker

  Feel Good, Sound, Phrases

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'd have to think about it, but I was listening to this Johnny Cash song today that Tom Waits wrote for him - I think that's the story. For some reason it's a thing that sticks in my brain. He's describing this scene where he sees all these almost biblical images happening kind of in this burrow where this biblical train runs through this yard.

  Justin Vernon

  Running, Song, Biblical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this secret that has been going on for more than two hundred years. The intermarriage of the Indian and the African in America, for example, has been constant and thorough. Colin Powell tells us in his autobiography that he is Scotch, Irish, African, Indian, and British, but all we hear is that he is African.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Years, Two, America

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.

  Alan Watts

  Eye, Heart, Thinking

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts, (p. 112), 1966.

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• And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. Into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. It is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Hope, Night

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• We are killing our host the planet Earth.... I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the 'AIDS of the Earth.' I make no apologies for that statement.... We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.

  Paul Watson

  Apology, Population, Needs

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• Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Writing, Needs, Form

  "In our new feature, Guillermo Del Toro takes us through his biggest firsts". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2013.

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• We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Variables, Modern

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• The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

  Charles Dickens

  Military, Drinking, And Love

  Charles Dickens (1874). “Barnaby Rudge. Sketches. pt.2”

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• Keep up your patient's spirits by music of viols and ten-stringed psaltery, or by forged letters describing the death of his enemies, or by telling him he has been elected to a bishopric, if a churchman.

  Henri de Mondeville

  Enemy, Letters, Spirit

  Chirurgie

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• There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Successful, Feelings, Rivals

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• Marriage is also a social statement, preeminently describing and defining a person's relationship and place in society. Marital status, along with what we do for a living, is often one of the first pieces of information we give to others about ourselves. It's so important, in fact, that most married people wear a symbol of their marriage on their hand.

  Evan Wolfson

  Hands, People, Giving

  Evan Wolfson (2007). “Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

  Georges Braque

  Writing, Painting, Illusion

  Georges Braque (1971). “Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955”, Dover Pubns

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• Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

  Jean Cocteau

  Reading, Stupidity, Proust

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• Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Eye, Sun, Cameras

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• I never take any notice of reviews - unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now.

  Robert Mitchum

  Sleep, Eye, Noses

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

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• To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see strange things. Machines, armies, multitudes, and shadows in the jungle. To see, and to take pleasure in seeing. To see and be instructed. To see and be amazed. (Describing the powers of photography; written for the launch of LIFE Magazine, 1936.)

  Henry R. Luce

  Photography, Army, Shadow

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• I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it, to make it my own, involves unearthing it, describing it, deploying it inform, and then rearranging it.

  Sarah Charlesworth

  Thinking, Symbolism, Rearranging

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• Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

  Roger Lewin

  Nature, Science, Creating

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• The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Interesting, Details

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Profound, Way, Evolution

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1972). “On love”

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• He had hard, steady eyes, and all the comforting, reassuring charm of a dental drill. - Harry Dresden describing Morgan

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Comforting, Dental

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• Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Adjectives, Normal

  "Sex Is Politics". Essay by Gore Vidal (1979), published in his book "The Second American Revolution and Other Essays", 1982.

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