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• You use elements of noir, but you don't want it to be too noir-ish. You don't want it to be advertised as though you're asking people to go and watch an updated noir. I don't think they'll go do that. They want to see a modern story.

  Danny Boyle

  Thinking, People, Watches

  "Danny Boyle Interview, Trance". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I think it's necessary to evaluate a skyscraper at multiple scales, since that's how we experience it: from right next to it on the street to from across the river, as well as at all kinds of points in between. It's important to think of it as an element in a larger skyline, but also as an element in an immediate streetscape.

  Paul Goldberger

  Thinking, Rivers, Important

  "Ask the Author Live: Paul Goldberger on the World Trade Center". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. September 2, 2011.

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• I like heist movies. I like action movies that set all the elements into one and a chance to do something that comes from a great stable of writing.

  Jason Statham

  Writing, Chance, Action

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The hover cars were terrifying. I manage to make it even more terrifying by having food poisoning on that day as well. Hover cars you can't get out of very easily or quickly, so that held a whole extra element of risk for me."

  Kate Beckinsale

  Car, Risk, Wells

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Well, I don't know whether it caused anguish in China, but it was not a wise way to proceed. But one has to remember that it was the first experience. And in a Republican administration, there is a conservative wing that looks at China as the last embodiment of communism, which therefore tends towards a more bellicose rhetoric anyway than I would. It's not the dominant element, but every once in a while they get a crack at public statement.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Wise, Wings, Cracks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are real issues going on in just about any movie that's got fun elements to it.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Fun, Real, Issues

  Source: collider.com

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• Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual elements have to be straight-faced, serious, realistic with a firm basis. What makes it comedy is a somewhat shifted way to put it together.

  Christoph Waltz

  People, Together, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I felt a gravitational pull to the material so that there's a certain element of acting that's not really necessary. I've really liked this in foreign movies before or I've observed others working with them and I've noticed that there's a method that goes on where the actors try and get the children, like the child actor, to interact with them in a real way. It seems like you're the adult trying to get the kid to fall in love with him.

  Brendan Fraser

  Falling In Love, Children, Real

  "Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser Interview EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES". collider.com. January 17, 2010.

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• How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Beauty, Beautiful, People

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.642, Spectra

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• Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.

  Immanuel Kant

  Determination, Communication, Mean

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• The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Circles, Mind, Destruction

  Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The courage to be happy”

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• "It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the day has a distinct quality, as it fades toward the darkness of evening. After sunset there is a gentle leaving of the light, the air begins to still, and a quiet descends. I see magic in the quiet light of dusk. I feel quiet, yet intense energy in the natural elements of our habitat. A sense of magic prevails. A sense of mystery. It is a time for contemplation, for listening - a time for making photographs. "

  John Sexton

  Photography, Sunset, Light

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• I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

  Eric Davis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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

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• Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary. Let us cherish these sentiments, and extend this influence still more widely; in full conviction that that is the happiest society which partakes in the highest degree of the mild and peaceful spirit of Christianity.

  Daniel Webster

  Christian, Religious, Father

  Daniel Webster (1848). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.56

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• There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. "For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she wills it." For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills it.

  John Adams

  Spring, Government, People

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.474

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• Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Risk, Needs

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• At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

  John McLaughlin

  Romantic, Love Is, Keys

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• Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject.

  Peter Atkins

  Stars, Block, Matter

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• I believed even then that if I could transform my experience into poetry I would give it the value and dignity it did not begin to possess on its own. I thought too that if I could write about it I could come to understand it; I believed that if I could understand my life—or at least the part my work played in it—I could embrace it with some degree of joy, an element conspicuously missing from my life.

  Philip Levine

  Writing, Giving, Joy

  "Philip Levine, former US poet laureate and Pulitzer winner, dies at 87". www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2015.

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• The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

  Thomas Campbell

  Baby, Boys, Mind

  Thomas Campbell (1834). “Life of Mrs. Siddons”, p.227

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• All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

  Henry Reed

  Creation, Interdependence, Humans

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• It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.

  John Sexton

  Moving On, Beautiful, Artist

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• In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

  Arthur Henderson

  Country, War, Preparation

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• Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in the development of highly specialized peripheral skills. but those choices in turn spring from a comprehensive view of nature and the universe in which man and woman are perceived as but elements inextricably linked to the whole.

  Wade Davis

  Spring, Men, Skills

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• Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

  John Sexton

  Thinking, Artist, Numbers

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