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• I would like to find a more precise way to not only tell the stories of female characters, but also do so in a female "way." My biggest advice would be to trust yourself.

  Danae Elon

  Character, Advice, Female

  "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Danae Elon – ‘P.S. Jerusalem’". Interview with Freja Dam, www.indiewire.com. September 11, 2015.

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• Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

  Nate Silver

  Masquerade, Accurate, Forecasts

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.39, Penguin

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• A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

  E. B. White

  Dream, Good Man, Special

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• As a young filmmaker, I shot a lot of stuff because I wanted to make sure that I got everything, but now I've gotten much more precise with my shooting. Editing is a whole other layer because then, sometimes you realize characters don't even need to say this or that. It becomes an issue of exposition, and over-explaining something. In the script, I'd reinforce certain things about what I wanted people to know two or three times, but in the editing room, I'd be like, "I only need to say this once, maybe twice."

  Storm Saulter

  Character, Editing, Two

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm interested in ordinary experience, and regardless of the precise definition of ordinary, and I've found that in so-called ordinary experience, there is as much comedy, tragedy, sadness, as there is in great drama. And I don't invent it, I recognize it.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Drama, Sadness, Tragedy

  "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.

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• Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring.

  Linn Ullmann

  Symbolism, Order, Perspective

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• A French proverb says 'Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.' To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Night, Waiting, Clock

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• It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

  Adrian Tomine

  Becoming Better, Important, Becoming More

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• When you watch a tea ceremony, every single movement, every single gesture is very calculated. It's very precise, and it's all protocol. It's all a part of the system. And it's almost like they've sacrificed every single thing to make that perfect. It's like their craft.

  Apolo Ohno

  Perfect, Tea, Watches

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Choices, Doubt

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.197, Faber & Faber

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• Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Air, Force

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had to get the voice back, the precise pitch of Sid's voice and I'd forgotten that I'd pitched him higher than my regular voice, so that was a little difficult to begin with. It was especially hard because we started recording in the morning so I had to warm up a lot and my usual voice is a little more gravelly.

  John Leguizamo

  Morning, Voice, Usual

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Differences, Links, Detours

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

  Cate Marvin

  Ideas, People, Readership

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Character, Ideas, Shooting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There were certainly those who rubbed their eyes in astonishment. But when we held a company discussion forum with Joschka Fischer, interest was high. Six hundred senior managers came to the meeting. In the end, there was tremendous applause for Fischer, because he offered a precise analysis of the challenges our industry faces worldwide.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Senior, Eye, Challenges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode the world with it. What are we talking about? You know, it's not interesting. I don't like Lord of the Rings. Even Star Wars, for me, I don't understand this kind of story. But Alien, because the rules of the game are very precise, it could happen. I love science fiction. I have an idea about robots in the future.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Stars, War, Talking

  Source: collider.com

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• Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China, must recognize that this affects the American attitude towards their country. But towards what precise institutions will it evolve? I think we ought to leave something to history.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Attitude, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The ultimate success formula: I) Decide what you want (Be precise! Clarity is power) II) Take action (because desire is not enough) III) Notice what's working or not (You don't want to continue to expend energy on an approach that's worthless IV) Change your approach until you achieve what you want (Flexibility gives you the power to create a new approach and a new result.)

  Tony Robbins

  Giving, Desire, Energy

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• I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had taken the direction it had. What cosmic forces had led me to this precise moment that saw me, once again, dancing on the rim of the volcano? The answers started to come to me as my life flashed before my eyes. I think it all started when I was arrested as a pyromaniac.

  Bill Lee

  Life, Taken, Eye

  Bill Lee, Richard Lally (2007). “The Wrong Stuff”, p.2, Crown Archetype

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• I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.

  David Grossman

  Writing, Army, Government

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• We are extremely precise about the girls we like; they're not necessarily the "It" girls of the season. Sometimes this "It" girl business gets a bit hysterical. It's all about which girl did which shoot with which photographer.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Girl, Photographer, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments can generally be trusted only if they remain short; even moderately long nonmathematical arguments rapidly becomes farfetched an dubious.

  Jacob T. Schwartz

  Character, Long, Common Sense

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• I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go over it once more, reading it aloud, and am always amazed at how much clutter can still be cut.

  William Zinsser

  Reading, Cutting, Trying

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Music Is

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