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• Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Taken, Media, Wire

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• Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it stand for?" They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Thinking, Editors

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• I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

  Dean Cain

  Sports, Guy, Film

  "Dean Cain on his prolific TV movie career, including tonight's 'A Mile in His Shoes'". Interview with Christian Blauvelt, ew.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Grief, Air

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours--- and so's publication.

  Robert Cormier

  Writing, School, Unique

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• But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Trying, Facts, Negative

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

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• We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of "how do we find our authentic selves?" And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

  Annette Bening

  Voice, Self, Who I Am

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

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• I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Needs, Stories

  "The Heretical Rob Bell and Why Love Wins" by Cathleen Falsani, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2011.

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• There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.

  Anne Carson

  Thinking, Always Trying, Greek

  "Magical thinking" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2006.

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• For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels, I was asked why, and the metaphor I came up with was about poems as rooms. You can make a room perfect, but then you have to shut the door and never go back, whereas a novel is like a house - it can never be perfect, but you can make a life in it.

  Nicole Krauss

  Doors, Perfect, House

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• I am always coming up with architectural metaphors when I think about writing. But I think one of the things that draw us to literature is that it gives us this very attractive illusion that there is meaning in the world - things connect.

  Nicole Krauss

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

  Tabitha King

  Believe, Past, Literature

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• Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object control is the basis of one of the five most fundamental metaphors for our inner life. To control objects, we must learn to control our bodies. We learn both forms of control together. Self-control and object control are inseparable experiences from earliest childhood. It is no surprise that we should have as a metaphor-a primary metaphor-Self Control is Object Control.

  George Lakoff

  Philosophy, Self, Should Have

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• Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

  Jane Lynch

  Football, War, Masculine

  "Jane Lynch Talks About the GLEE Super Bowl Episode and Season Two". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 5, 2011.

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• Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Thinking, Editors

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• The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

  Dar Williams

  Art, Funny Things, Musician

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• We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.

  Luci Shaw

  Dream, Vision, Invisible

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• Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Artist, Dubious

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• The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins.

  Anne Rice

  Perfect, Vampire, Outsiders

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• In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change, or a system of telecommunications which enables individual producers to watch merely the movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust their activities to changes of which they may never know more than is reflected in the price movement.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Hands, Order, Watches

  "The Use of Knowledge in Society" by Friedrich Hayek, American Economic Review, September 1945.

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• [Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.

  Larry Wall

  Moving, Escaping, People

  "The State of the Onion". www.perl.com. August 19, 2004.

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• My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.

  Scott Glenn

  Color, Purple, Editing

  Source: collider.com

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• The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. At the heart of things science finds only a mad, never-ending quadrille of Mock Turtle Waves and Gryphon Particles. For a moment the waves and particles dance in grotesque, inconceivably complex patterns capable of reflecting on their own absurdity.

  Martin Gardner

  Book, Heart, Turtles

  "The Annotated Alice". Book by Martin Gardner (Introduction), 1960.

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• Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty. This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.

  Gao Xingjian

  Distance, Symbolism, White

  "Soul Mountain". Book by Gao Xingjian, 1989.

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• Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Thinking, Imagination, Mind

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