Realms Quotes - Page 8

• Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends... Glass and Woolf have both broken out of the traditional realm of the story, whether literary or musical, in favor of something more meditative, less neatly delineated, and more true to life. For me, Glass [finds] in three repeated notes something of [a] rapture of sameness.

  Michael Cunningham

  Glasses, Virginia, Broken

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes I see my students, especially the ones with a gift for the lyrical, reaching far outside the realm of their own experience for language and images. I understand this impulse. We think, in the beginning, that striking exotic words together will create something entirely new. That we must be worldly in our vocabulary. We idolize the styles of other writers and don't trust or perhaps yet know our own.

  Melissa Febos

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Style

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think blogging and the ability to instantaneously respond to news items has changed the way we approach all media. We're seeing people talking back to columnists, and going much further in the sexual realm than most papers, even alternative weeklies, will publish. I'm surprised more papers aren't having people do what you're doing with an online only column, and to be honest, I read almost all the media I do read online, and plenty of other people do, too, so I don't know what's stopping them.

  Rachel Kramer Bussel

  Thinking, Media, Talking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• People want their reason for living to be a singular thing, like a career or a relationship, because this makes an individual feel secure in the physical world. We don't fare well in the realm of the invisible - so telling someone that their purpose is multilayered and includes the arduous journey of discovering who they really are is not always the answer they want to hear. But consider the complexity of the question: "What is my reason for living?" How can that question not include a journey into the depths of your own life?

  Caroline Myss

  Journey, Careers, People

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• In everything I write, I seek out something which I term, 'the music'. This is an energy centre which I cannot define and which lies beyond the realm of obvious poetic technique.

  Suhayl Saadi

  Lying, Writing, Technique

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I want to remain distinct and authentically Christian in whatever realm I'm in. That's really what my aim is, for people to see I truly treasure and value Jesus and His Word.

  LeCrae

  Christian, Jesus, People

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• The Bible says, "Take heed, lest you fall," but this has really been the story of my life. I've traveled into other realms in order to be a light and be a missionary. Some of them were very dangerous, and I don't look at this as any different.

  LeCrae

  Fall, Light, Order

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• The asymmetries of power that have shaped relations between the West and the rest of the world also exist in the realm of literary criticism.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Criticism, Asymmetry, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Survival, Different

  Theodor W. Adorno (1982). “Prisms”, p.132, MIT Press

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• One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

  Jeff Bridges

  Art, America, Childhood

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• For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

  Dan Brown

  Real, Technology, Law

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• When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register (NAR), which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury "the modern Domesday Book".

  James Buchan

  Book, London, Modern

  "Judgment Day... again" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2001.

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• I have certain things that I stand for, certain things that I believe in, and if you don't like it and you tell me to go to hell, I think that's your God-given right as a fan. It's one of those deals where I'm that one guy who is outside of that realm of good guy, bad guy. I'm just me, and it elicits a response both positive and negative.

  John Cena

  Believe, Thinking, Guy

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

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• We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.

  Mitch Daniels

  Government, League, Important

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

  Robert Delaunay

  Artist, Hands, Color

  "Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics". Book by Herschel Browning Chipp, p. 318, 1968.

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• If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

  Denis Diderot

  Sublime, Essentials, Thieves

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1805.

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• Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

  Terry Eagleton

  Political, Age, Spheres

  "Milton's republic" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2008.

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• When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.

  Charles Stanley

  Son, Blow, Destiny

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• The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

  Tom Stoppard

  Turtles, Ideas, Defense

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• A day may sink or save a realm.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, May, Time Management

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1694, Delphi Classics

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• I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Fear, Boxing

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• I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

  Jimmy Wales

  Mistake, Thinking, Different

  "Wikipedia Is Just the Start: An Interview With Jimmy Wales" by Dylan Tweney, www.wired.com. May 29, 2007.

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• I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.

  Johnny Weir

  Fall, Design, Costumes

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• I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited. Like, if you think you're going to make a difference or change anything, you're on pretty dangerous thin ice.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Ice, Ideas

  "'Elysium' Interview: Neill Blomkamp's Team On Creating A New Sci-Fi World". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, screencrush.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

  Hanna Rosin

  Numbers, Doe, Facts

  "Is breast-feeding really best?" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. March 16, 2009.

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