Technique Quotes - Page 37

• One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Trying, Acting, Knows

  "Kristin Bauer: The Lady Is A Vamp". Interview With Jamie Johns, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 8, 2011.

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• Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

  Lee Krasner

  Moving, Men, Painting

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• I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems.

  Lee Strobel

  Thinking, Healthy, Use

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• "The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique."

  Neal Stephenson

  Mean, Missing, Excess

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.99, Spectra

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• It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get a lot done - very rarely include techniques for 'getting motivated' or 'feeling inspired'. Quite the opposite: they tend to emphasise the mechanics of the working process, focusing not on generating the right mood, but on accomplishing certain physical actions, regardless of mood.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Artist, Opposites, People

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• The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, that reveal its fissures and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will one day appear in the Messianic light.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Light, Perspective

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• Let's review the cost-free techniques that we've learned so far for raising an achievement-oriented, obedient, drug-free, virgin adult: Calamity, Praise, Local Theater, and flat feet. Another key element is "Strong Father Figure / Fear Thereof."

  Tina Fey

  Strong, Father, Keys

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• All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Party, Germany

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

  Antony Sher

  Skills, Car, Effort

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• The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.

  Bayard Rustin

  Journey, Peaceful, Crow

  Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally.

  Derek Barton

  Molecules, Doe, Rotation

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• The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Century, Surface, Changed

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• There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.

  Jean-Francois Cope

  Numbers, Political, Behaviour

  "Can Jean-François Copé save France from anti-Muslim extremism?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2011.

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• That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

  Jeremy Jackson

  Historical, Recipes, Ingredients

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• When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it's more about technique than physical strength.

  Kuno Becker

  Use, Body, Physical Strength

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• We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

  Leo Ornstein

  Exercise, Use, Firsts

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• One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.

  Linda Chavez

  Mistreatment, Torture, Terrorist

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• By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.

  Marvin Minsky

  Light, Race, Jurassic Park

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• I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.

  Nick Bantock

  Writing, Years, Want

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• Polytechnique is a school whose multi disciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

  Philippe Perrin

  School, Levels, Curriculum

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• An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

  Robert Henri

  Artist, Shining, May

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

  Ron Suskind

  Simple, People, Trying

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• I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

  Sadaharu Oh

  Running, Strong, Home

  "Sadaharu Oh Still Feels and Thinks the Game". www.nytimes.com. May 4, 2008.

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• Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

  Troy Vincent

  Sports, Games, Sometimes

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• I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

  Jane Lynch

  Fall, Writing, Singing

  "See Jane Laugh". Interview with Allan Fallow, www.aarp.org. September 13, 2011.

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