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• If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn't, doesn't, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.

  Bocafloja

  Community, Doe, Speech

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in her body and gave birth to me out of her desire but washed her hands of me after giving birth to me as a poet.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Mother, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Everyone has his own agenda, and it can overshadow the important thing, which is to capture a great performance. They listen to it and think, "Oh, I'm not mixed loud enough...I missed a note there...I'm a half-step off on the turnaround."

  Dick Latvala

  Thinking, Important, Steps

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was to create a book that affords readers some of the novel's long-form pleasures but that also contains the short story's ability to capture what is so difficult about being human - the brevity of our moments, their cruel irrevocability.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Long, Stories

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.

  Ayumi Hamasaki

  Song, Lying, Writing

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• Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.

  Alvaro Siza Vieira

  Design, Quality, Nuance

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• I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Islamic, Purpose, Use

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When you're at the basketball court watching a game, one person may be talking about a fight he had with his wife, another is talking about the last hard-on he got, someone else is talking about the presidential election. The language and the tone and the voice - I'd love to be able to capture that spontaneity.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Basketball, Fighting, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Labels want to capture a certain market of kids and blah blah blah, and it's true, I just never think about that stuff. It's all part of a chain that's moving along, but this phase of music has to switch.

  Marnie Stern

  Moving, Kids, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think it's hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Thinking, Community, Nuance

  "Edwidge Danticat: The “Create Dangerously” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. November 23, 2010.

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• The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, School, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.

  Jon Weisman

  Adventure, Mind, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Most of the people I've been fortunate enough to work with all share the same passion for creativity, for ingenuity, for playing make-believe and really just having fun. It doesn't matter if we're blowing up cars, or shooting an emotional scene in a police station, deep inside we all know our imaginations are at work, and our imaginations are manifesting into reality - at least momentarily for the cameras to capture.

  Gabriel Campisi

  Fun, Believe, Passion

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

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• I wanted to capture time through how food and I were getting along at any given moment. That necessitated writing some dark stuff, some sad stuff, and a lot of painful memories, because my life has often been dark, sad, and painful. I didn't want to sugarcoat anything.

  Kate Christensen

  Memories, Writing, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Perhaps adding a line or two of dialogue to try to better capture an emotion. But I've found that if the story isn't there in the beginning, right from the start, I generally can't beat it into shape no matter how much rewriting I do.

  Mary J. Miller

  Two, Trying, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?

  L. Todd Rose

  Discovery, Average, Data

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music that actually took me places.

  Bucky Pope

  Feelings, Sound, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If we capture any of these ISIS killers alive, they are going to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and we're going to find out everything they know, because when I'm president, unlike Barack Obama, we will keep this country safe.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Isis, President

  Marco Rubio's speech at the main Republican Presidential debate hosted by Fox News and Google the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2016.

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• I believe life is destiny, and really the capture the magic of life, and the same for the magic in the disaster.

  Meital Dohan

  Believe, Destiny, Magic

  FaceBook post by Meital Dohan from Jun 30, 2013

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• I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake, but what they were trying to capture was an emotional toughness and a woundedness. I knew I liked the character. I didn't know who the character was, but I liked the spirit of the character.

  Caity Lotz

  Character, Emotional, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm trying to capture a moment. It's not about the singer at the microphone. I'm trying to look for, like, a moment in between.

  Danny Clinch

  Trying, Looks, Singers

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think summer, at least as I've experienced it, can be joyous but it can also be tough emotionally. Physically, it can be hot to the point of being unbearable and I think you want to capture that frustration, but also the release.

  Rostam Batmanglij

  Summer, Thinking, Frustration

  Source: www.elle.com

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• This whole business of all these lenses is ridiculous. You know, it's like you have to capture your picture. You have to create it. You have to see it. You have to seize it and you have to move in to get it, so those lenses are just an escape of some sort or a shield.

  Carol Friedman

  Moving, Lenses, Shields

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for the zoo trade must often kill all the adults in the family to capture the baby.

  Sy Montgomery

  Baby, Zoos, Fighting

  Sy Montgomery (2009). “Walking with the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas”, p.42, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It's also a "forever document" that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people?

  Brendon Burchard

  Good Life, Book, Writing

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