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• Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to follow the action with tenderness and interest, all passion spent.  Rather than surrender to the story or the characters - as a good first reader ought - we can now look at how the book works, and instead of swooning over it like a besotted lover begin to appreciate its intricacy and craftmanship.  Surprisingly, such dissection doesn't murder the experience.  Just the opposite: Only then does a work of art fully live.

  Michael Dirda

  Art, Book, Passion

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• One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materials of myth and magic to encourage people to act against their own best interests, whether it's a matter of buying overpriced fizzy sugar water or the much more serious matter of continuing to support the unthinking pursuit of business as usual in the teeth of approaching disaster.

  John Michael Greer

  Hands, People, Water

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• There is nothing beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will.

  William Carlos Williams

  Order, Imagination, Delight

  William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.35, New Directions Publishing

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• If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual.

  Donald A. Norman

  Thinking, People, Buying

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Ch. 1, p. 8, 2002.

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• But when you are doing an animated voice, it has to have more energy than usual or it falls flat and doesn't work. For myself, I found that I had to put myself in the same physical or emotional state as Sid, in order to make that voice sound alive and authentic. So if there was a scene in which he was running, I would be running beforehand to sound out of breath. That's important because the audience can tell intuitively if it does not sound real.

  John Leguizamo

  Running, Real, Fall

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

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• People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.

  George Orwell

  Night, Names, People

  George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.19, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Discovery, Missing, Research

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• We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren't pedagogical. They weren't financial. They weren't curricular. They weren't research. They weren't any of the usual things we've always talked about as the engines of change. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.

  David Edward

  Educational, Emotional, Thinking

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• The usual struggle squeezing my bloated Citroën, absurdly named “Picasso,” in or out of any old Italian town. I should be taking a year over this and doing it on a donkey. Eventually found the road to the church of the Madonna of San Biagio, a foursquare temple sitting all alone in the plain. Sangallo's fantasy of the Doric order in honey-colored sandstone, with shell-niches, rosettes, oculi under heavy entablatures. Any one ignorant of geometry scarcely dare enter this shrine to number, measure, and weight. So clean and crisp I could eat it for breakfast.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Struggle, Italian, Order

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• My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

  Conrad Veidt

  Jealousy, Mother, Brother

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• It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Change, Men, May

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• I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority to read at least one newsweekly from cover to cover. If I were to read what intrigues me- say, the science and business sections - then I would finish the magazine the same person I was when I started. So I read it all.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Reading, Night

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• My father thought I would lead a simple life; that I was bright but unambitious, complacant with whatever work life threw at me. My father, as usual, was wrong.

  Samantha Shannon

  Father, Simple, Whatever Works

  Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.2, A&C Black

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• It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no more noble or virtuous than the rest of us, and in some cases less so, as they suffer from the usual human imperfections and frailties. And the Court’s history proves it.

  Mark Levin

  Children, Makeup, Blood

  Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It's really not even fair to everyone else.

  Richelle Mead

  Kids, Years, Brain

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.145, Penguin

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• I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Gossip, Feelings, Heard

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• Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Clinging, Stuck, Oneself

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• But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present." Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it. "Hmm," said Hazael. "Not the usual response." "Oh, do you give flowers often?" "Yes," he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. "I hope it wasn't poisonous," he said lightly. Liraz just shrugged. "There are worse ways to die.

  Laini Taylor

  Flower, Giving, Enjoy Life

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.467, Hachette UK

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• Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone. I’d never live it down.

  Michael Grant

  Boys, Self, World

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• Antidepressants. The thought of this girl actually being depressed made me want to grab the whole planet and throw it into the sun. Well, more than usual anyway.

  David Wong

  Girl, Want, Sun

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.417, Titan Books

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• So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mean, Natural, Unnatural

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “The Subjection of Women”, p.22, Hayes Barton Press

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• My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like to try something else, but not the obvious or usual thing.

  Frances Stark

  Dream, Art, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just invited close friends and family, the usual suspects whose opinion I value but who I know will enjoy the film [Before I Go To Sleep]. I don't know how difficult it is for them to suspend their disbelief because they obviously know me and what they're seeing is not me.

  Mark Strong

  Sleep, Family And Friends, Opinion

  Source: collider.com

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• If some of these answers seem radical or far-fetched today, then I say wait until tomorrow. Soon it will be abundantly clear that it is business as usual that is utopian, whereas creating something very new and different is a practical necessity.

  James Gustave Speth

  Creating, Waiting, Different

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• Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.

  Jim Wallis

  Kings, Powerful, Moving

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