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• A man has only a limited number of ways in which he can express strong emotions or violent passions. He uses the same gestures as when what he feels is only petty and unimportant. He utters the same ordinary words.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Strong, Passion, Men

  Tadeusz Borowski (1976). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time. The effect seems salutary: even people who ordinarily are as colorful and gay as groundworms, who would dare not consider a flamboyant gesture, hang long strings of brightly colored lights around their houses, trim Christmas trees, and talk to strangers.

  Anna Thomas

  Christmas, Religious, Gay

  Anna Thomas (1972). “The Vegetarian Epicure”, Vintage

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• It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Symphony, Quiet, Significance

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• There was a very small crowd - minuscule compared to the crowd that he gathered later - at a private home in Los Angeles. And we were standing on the back patio, waiting for him. And he came through the house, saw me and immediately put his hand up in the Vulcan gesture. He said, 'They told me you were here.' We had a wonderful, brief conversation and I said, 'It would be logical if you would become president.'

  Leonard Nimoy

  Home, Hands, House

  "POTUS, Trekkie". Interview with Ben Smith, www.politico.com. May 8, 2009.

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• Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name) that results in manifestation/s. But these patterns of thought can have so much to do with whimsy that magic often is jokes.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Exercise, Names, Often Is

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• There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or that is floating and never arriving. You can make a melodic line dominant or barely visible. The conducting gesture is akin to painting or sculpture.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Lines, Bass, Arriving

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Laurence Equilbey, logger.believermag.com. There Will Be Joy.

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• Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Noses, World, Way

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• ... I never look at my watch if I'm talking with someone. I think that's such an insulting gesture! It suggests you're trying to gauge whether you think what they're saying is worth your time. Rushing is no way to bring out what's best in people, and I'm always looking for the best. That's what's ultimately behind my determination to take my time.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Determination, Thinking, Talking

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• I try to do romantic gestures all the time. For instance, this morning I work up early -- earlier than I would have normally liked to have woken up. Elizabeth [Chambers] was still asleep, so I just laid in bed and cuddled with her for an hour. I just ran my hands over her body. It was nice.

  Armie Hammer

  Morning, Nice, Up Early

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• It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Mind, Religion

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• Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.

  Bill Vaughan

  Memorable, Details, Analysis

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• A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

  Donnie Yen

  Example, Body, Way

  "Action Star Donnie Yen Talks DRAGON, Why He Turned Down THE EXPENDABLES 2, Period Versus Modern, Whether Breaking Out in the U.S. is a Goal, and More". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. November 29, 2012.

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• For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, there's a burden to acting in a period film because you have to stay within the character's historical background and the gestures of certain periods.

  Donnie Yen

  Character, Challenges, Historical

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• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  Walter Huston

  Simple, Years, Voice

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

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• how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?

  Laura Lippman

  Magnanimous, Ifs, Magnanimity

  Laura Lippman (2011). “What the Dead Know”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.

  Margaret Halsey

  Race, Long, Racism

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to every gesture, which heaven forbid that I, professing to be a poet, should undervalue. It is beautiful, and therefore I welcome it in the name of the author of all beauty. I value it so highly that I would fain see it extend not merely from Belgravia to the tradesman's villa, but thence, as I believe it one day will, to the laborer's hovel and the needlewoman's garret.

  Charles Kingsley

  Beautiful, Believe, Names

  Charles Kingsley (1862). “Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiograhpy”, p.117

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• Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, All Things

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.1, New World Library

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• It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.

  Sheila Kaye-Smith

  Kissing, Government, Agriculture

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• The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.

  Martha Graham

  Thinking, Body, Action

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• Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Mean, Vision, Theatre

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• Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

  Etty Hillesum

  Silence, Sometimes, Made

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.131, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Play, Voice

  Friedrich Melchior Freiherr von Grimm, Denis Diderot (1815). “Historical & Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes, Selected from the Correspondence of Baron de Grimm and Diderot with the Duke of Saxe-Gotha, and Many Other Distinguished Persons, Between the Years of 1753 and 1790”, p.68

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• I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

  George Sanders

  Flower, Men, Winning

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• We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Pulse, Applause, Rhythm

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