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• "Mad Men" - it seems like they try to capture this glamorized version of the '50s and '60s advertising culture.

  Geoffrey Gray

  Men, Mad, Trying

  "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.

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• So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Photography, Reality, Suffering

  "Photography, or the Writing of Light" by Jean Baudrillard, 2000.

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• I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying.

  Claude Monet

  Light, Use, Landscape

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.

  Paul Klee

  Color, Simplicity, Way

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.232, Univ of California Press

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• Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.

  Alain de Botton

  Reality, Choices, Painting

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• No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Attitude, Space, Trying

  "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.

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• I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.".

  Karl Urban

  Book, Reading, Imagination

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• I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.

  Keren Ann

  Music, Years, Months

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• Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Country

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Writing, College, Virginia

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• I think that every record label has its trials and tribulations, its ups and downs. The only thing you can do is hope to recognize what it is that makes you great, and to try and continue to capture it.

  El-P

  Thinking, Trying, Labels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light; a tool that captures the elemental and animates or holds it still at will; a tool that captures the organic flow of the earth's crust or the wash of a wave, and creates an impossible symmetry, an elemental Rorshach pattern ripe for continued exploration, divulging a thousand revelations.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Light, Tools, Earth

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• Pirates of the Caribbean, move over! Make room for a crew of mouse-privateers who will capture your hearts and stop your breath with their thrilling sea-going adventures! A wonderful story, full of bold mice, good and wicked, who will show you what courage really means.

  Lynne Reid Banks

  Moving, Heart, Adventure

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• Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of the past, yet one capable of healing against all odds. An engrossing yet succinct film that captures not only a major incident in Vietnamese American life, but also an important chapter of American history. A profound film that manages to confront us with the deepest sorrow while allowing us to be hopeful about what it means to be human.

  Nguyen Qui Duc

  War, Healing, Mean

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• For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam and dark lipstick, to the'60s Hong Kong heroine of In the Mood for Love. I wanted to capture that fascinating, exquisite and slightly scandalous femininity.

  Tom Ford

  Dark, Past, Mysterious Woman

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• The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was heading for Ceylon and the naval base there. The capture of Ceylon, the consequent control of the Indian Ocean, and the possibility at the same time of a German conquest of Egypt would have closed the ring and the future would have been black.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Ocean, Egypt

  "Battle for the Skies". Book by Michael Paterson, David & Charles, 2004.

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• The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Alcohol, Live In The Moment

  "Woman As Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 42), 1978.

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• It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.

  Bill Vaughan

  Essence, Speech, Chaos

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• As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.

  Michael Connelly

  Jobs, Ears, Dialogue

  "Michael Connelly on Writing for Men". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. November 25, 2013.

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• There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.

  Antoni Tapies

  Real, Lying, Expression

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• Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.

  Justin Beckett

  Nature, Honor, Able

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• The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream.

  Ansel Adams

  Beautiful, Dream, Reality

  Radio interview, 1972.

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• The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

  Julia Gillard

  Cartoon, Acres, Photograph

  "Julia Gillard: 20 people, 20 questions". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2013.

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• Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to try to capture that emotion.

  Bruno Mars

  Song, Rocks, Feelings

  "Bruno Mars: A Q&A with the artist about new album 'Unorthodox Jukebox'". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.csmonitor.com. December 19, 2012.

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• The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting captures a certain resistance of paint, a prodding gesture of the brush, a speed and insistence in the face of mindless matter.

  James Elkins

  Memories, Gestures, Matter

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.2, Routledge

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