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• Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of the objects, with a crude handling of matter. Moments altogether new, never seen before compositions whose boldness outstrips the imagination of painters Then the creation of those instants which do not exist, contrived by means of photomontage. The negative transmits altogether new stimuli to the sentient mind and eye.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Strong, Eye, Mean

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• To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.

  Eric Stoltz

  Scratches, Lists, My Favorite

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• American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism

  Susan Sontag

  Anxiety, Energy, Floating

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• It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved a great deal in her life. So easy to vilify her and hate her and try to destroy her life. Woe to anyone today who is not slender, young, clever and politically correct.

  Anne Rice

  Clever, Hate, Heart

  "Anne Rice defends Paula Deen" by Erin Strecker, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2013.

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• When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

  Regina Spektor

  Writing, Trying, Want

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

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• He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.

  Plato

  Athlete, Men, Savages

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• When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels right now? Good luck God! You've got your hands full this time.

  Terry Gilliam

  Song, Teaching, Good Luck

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• America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.

  Barack Obama

  People, World, Failing

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

  Ben Jonson

  Imperfect Things, Light, Opinion

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.92, Manchester University Press

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• A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

  Johan Huizinga

  Truth, Thinking, Mind

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• Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

  George Santayana

  Echoes, Vision, Arms

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.131, Library of Alexandria

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• We remember when women were spoken of differently. I don't mean that we didn't speak of women sexually - that happened. It was never this crude: there wasn't the connotations, the violence. I think there's got to be a relationship between the coarsening of the culture, of which pornography was a piece of the puzzle.

  George Pelecanos

  Mean, Thinking, Violence

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Somebody once said that the ideal size of a country for democracy to work is around 10 million people - and that kind of makes sense if you think of it in very crude terms. In a smaller country, I guess it's easier to maintain some kind of common ground.I do think the Swedish system of government works really well. Obviously, everything doesn't work perfectly, but I like the principle of it.

  Johan Renck

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.

  Amy Lowell

  Confused, America, Sublime

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• I'm a rather crude cook.

  Dominic West

  Cooks

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

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• Soil erosion is as old as agriculture. It began when the first heavy rain struck the first furrow turned by a crude implement of tillage in the hands or prehistoric man. It has been going on ever since, wherever man's culture of the earth has bared the soil to rain and wind.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Rain, Men, Agriculture

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• Violence is used to suppress a people in a most blatantly crude way. We can historicize and contextualize it. We can analyze the Algerian situation, its history and so forth, and question whether that is anything like the situation we face today. But, this is only one way to understand why violence becomes so important.

  Nigel Gibson

  People, Important, Today

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• I went into Hollywood and met Mike Aarons and went to Grantray-Lawrence Animation to work on the, by today's standards, extremely cheap and crude Marvel superheroes cartoons which basically consisted of taking stacks of the comic book art, taking parts of the art, pasting it down, extending it down into drawings and occasionally a new piece of art to bridge the comic book panels and limited animation and lip movement.

  Mike Royer

  Art, Book, Bridges

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.

  Michael Palmer

  Data, Broken, Etc

  "Tech giants may be huge, but nothing matches big data" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2013.

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• With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.

  William Boyd

  Views, Acting, Cameras

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• Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude.

  Bruno Dumont

  Sex, Violent, Sentiments

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Organization, Ideas

  Peter F. Drucker (2013). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.52, Elsevier

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• It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

  Louise Erdrich

  Writing, Trying, Manipulate

  "Cross-dressing the Divine". Interview by Josie Rawson, www.motherjones.com. June 2001.

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• Trial by jury must and shall be preserved! Amidst the throng of crude sacrilegisms ... that assail us nowadays in the legal sanctuary, none is more shortsighted, none more dangerous, than the proposal to abolish trial by jury.

  John Henry Wigmore

  Trials, Sanctuary, Proposal

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• All the months are crude experiments,
  out of which the perfect September is made.

  Virginia Woolf

  Perfect, Months, September

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

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