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• People hate to describe their music. What we have come to call it is "beat up your mom" music. As far as describing what it sounds like, I guess you'd have to listen.

  Marilyn Manson

  Mom, Hate, People

  Source: www.mansonwiki.com

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• There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Successful, Feelings, Rivals

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• Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

  Georges Braque

  Writing, Painting, Illusion

  Georges Braque (1971). “Illustrated notebooks, 1917-1955”, Dover Pubns

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• Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

  Jean Cocteau

  Reading, Stupidity, Proust

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• Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Eye, Sun, Cameras

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• I never take any notice of reviews - unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now.

  Robert Mitchum

  Sleep, Eye, Noses

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

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• To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see strange things. Machines, armies, multitudes, and shadows in the jungle. To see, and to take pleasure in seeing. To see and be instructed. To see and be amazed. (Describing the powers of photography; written for the launch of LIFE Magazine, 1936.)

  Henry R. Luce

  Photography, Army, Shadow

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• I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it, to make it my own, involves unearthing it, describing it, deploying it inform, and then rearranging it.

  Sarah Charlesworth

  Thinking, Symbolism, Rearranging

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• We are killing our host the planet Earth.... I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the 'AIDS of the Earth.' I make no apologies for that statement.... We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.

  Paul Watson

  Apology, Population, Needs

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• I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Horse, Clouds, Turtles

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Look at the openings of Fitzgerald stories, and Graham Greene, they're great at this.

  Janet Fitch

  Character, Emotional, Looks

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• Campaign manager Eli Gold played by Alan Cumming on "The Good Wife" describing an old maxim in politics, don't commit to a decision before you have to. And that rule appears to have worked brilliantly for Democratic candidate front-runner Hillary Clinton, who has avoided taking a position on the president's trade agenda and has remained out of the ugly public spat with the progressive wing of her party. She has also not taken a position on the Iranian - on the talks.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Taken, Wings

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Describing some kinds of feelings comes across as too excessive in the first person. If you put it in the third person, you're taking a little bit of a distance, and that way it becomes more apprehensible to a viewer. You're always riding this fine line of risking saying too much, do you know what I mean? When you feel you're in that area, if you shift the address a little bit it can alter it.

  Moyra Davey

  Distance, Mean, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or binary digit is the basic unit of pre-logical communication. Genesis is a sprouting of 'bits', ie elementary binary distinctions.

  Charles Hampden-Turner

  Communication, Book, What If

  Charles Hampden-Turner (1982). “Maps of the Mind”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• The difficulty involved in the proper and adequate means of describing changes in continuous deformable bodies is the method of differential equations. ... They express mathematically the physical concept of contiguous action.
  Einstein's Theory of Relativity

  Max Born

  Mean, Body, Adequate

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• The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a property of that interaction and not the wine itself

  Jamie Goode

  Wine, Conscious, Score

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• The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.

  E. M. Forster

  Sex, Character, Names

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• Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated by his student), and it surely distorts the character Mann created. Yet, we know that Mann's novella was based on a holiday in Venice he took with his wife and brother, and that while he was there he followed the reports in the German newspapers, describing the dying Mahler's progress as he returned from New York to Vienna.

  Philip Kitcher

  Brother, New York, Holiday

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense of the difference between socialism and capitalism.

  Chris Matthews

  Thinking, Two, Differences

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Liberals and leftists are not wrong in describing romanticism as reactionary, because it did indeed become that after 1810. The problem is that they make that description true of the movement as a whole, as if romanticism were essentially reactionary.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Movement, Problem, Description

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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• People are already describing it [Skyfall] as the best Bond flick ever, and I really think it will be.

  Naomie Harris

  Thinking, People, Skyfall

  "Naomie Harris is the new James Bond Girl in Skyfall". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way of describing the insides of David Hasselhoff. He is like a protein, clean and easy. That's how I feel about myself.

  David Hasselhoff

  Thinking, Perfect, Would Be

  "David Hasselhoff talks 'Piranha 3DD,' his high-protein essence, and the Hoff Train". Interview with Adam Pockross, www.yahoo.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Cameras, Modern Life, Seems

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• There have always been dreamers. Men and women who catch a glimpse of something beyond themselves who dare to reach for goals and visions. .. Yet no earthly dreamer can match the greatest of them all, the Dreamer who died on the cross to make His dream a reality. John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the Word." The literal meaning of logos, the original Greek term translated as "Word," is idea, thought or blueprint. It is an ancient Greek theatrical term describing the work of a playwright as he conceives, or dreams up, the plot of a play. So we could say, "In the beginning was the dream".

  Tommy Tenney

  Dream, Reality, Men

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• There are so many dimensions in my music, and I think mostly what people hear is hope - the describing of experiences and the wonders of life

  Michael Tolcher

  Thinking, People, Wonder Of Life

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