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• I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

  Philip Glass

  Years, Minimalist, Used

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• Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Writing, Adjectives And Adverbs, Care

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• If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writers description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. Theyre looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, Character, Males

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• There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called Horned Pigeon. He had been on the run and hadnt eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Running, War, Book

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• One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depressed Person, Ordinary, Lost

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• There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

  Ronald Reagan

  Sound, Dollars, American Politics

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• I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December 7, 1941 was a "day of infamy" then December 15, 1978 ranks right up there in international betrayal...The pathetic thing about this whole mess, however, is that it is typical of this administration's conduct of foreign affairs, which could be kindly described as being riddled by ineptitude and hypocrisy.

  Barry Goldwater

  Betrayal, War, Hypocrisy

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• My description of fun would be to sit on someone's couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I'm in a hotel, on-demand is the same. I watch the TV in another language, trying to figure out what they're saying.

  Curtis Jackson

  Fun, Trying, Watches

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate surface of being and reveal the tactile density of it as a manifold whose measure cannot be immediately taken by the eyes, that it's deep, it's connected, it's complex. Everything holds within itself the anticipation and the memory of everything else.

  Terence McKenna

  Memories, Taken, Eye

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• The magical descriptions of Italy and hilarious observations about love, travel, natives and foreigners in Love in Idleness are but a few of its many pleasures. Amanda Craig has created a hot shimmery climate in which a cast of old friends, quirky family members and naughty children who make love potions come to know themselves and their hearts. A delightful brew.

  Jane Hamilton

  Children, Heart, Naughty

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• Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn’t fit this description.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Government, Elderly, People

  "Elections 2012: Who is Really ‘Pro-Life?’" by Joni Eareckson Tada, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.

  Barton Seaver

  Stress, People, Firsts

  "Blue Ridge's Barton Seaver: Chef of the Year" by John Mariani, www.esquire.com. October 12, 2009.

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• In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception?

  Patricia Hampl

  Integrity, Writing, Mean

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• I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

  Duane Michals

  Believe, People, Looks

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• Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut.

  Martha Grimes

  Historical Novels, Details, London

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• What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to predict events. These equations are, we would argue, the only realities we can be certain of in physics; any other ways we have of thinking about the situation are visual aids or mnemonics which make it easier for beings with our sort of macroscopic experience to use and remember the equations.

  Celia Green

  Reality, Thinking, Theoretical Physics

  "The Lost Cause: Causation and the Mind-body Problem". Book by Celia Green, 2003.

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• I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

  Noah Baumbach

  Writing, Trying, Imagine

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• And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sex, Philosophy, Reading

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• I think the critical thing is the product or service that you're trying to raise money for. And probably the best description of that, people should say when they hear, "This is what I want to do. This is what I want to bring to the market." They should say, "Gee! That's a great idea" or "Gee! Why hasn't somebody else thought of that before? Well, that's an incredible idea!" In other words, the more a person is delighted, or astonished, or happy with your product, or service, or idea, the more happy they are to put up money for it.

  Brian Tracy

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: ceotraining.com

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• An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.

  George Santayana

  Real, Successful, Men

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes.

  Herman Melville

  Art, Political, Dreamer

  Herman Melville (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.409, Northwestern University Press

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• Thus the theory of description matters most.
  It is the theory of the word for those
  For whom the word is the making of the world,
  The buzzing world and lisping firmament.

  Wallace Stevens

  World, Matter, Firmament

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.345, Vintage

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• Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

  Mason Cooley

  Love Making, Midst

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• The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Principles, Analysis, Fundamentals

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.75, Bertrand Russell

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• Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.

  Edward de Bono

  Education, Play, Analysis

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