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• The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

  Philip Auslander

  Actors, Illusion, Brecht

  Philip Auslander (2002). “From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism and Postmodernism”, p.33, Routledge

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• The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.

  Terence McKenna

  Simple, Deep Water, Suffering

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• Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge materials as well as enough fur and feathers to whip out a half dozen of virtually every conceivable dry pattern nature can throw at me. I have used it once, in 1993.

  Jack Ohman

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Practice, Meditation

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• The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Meditation, Finding Yourself

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• The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.

  John Paul Stevens

  Religious, Squares, Atheism

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• Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Civilization, Age, Useless

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.173, Penguin

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• Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Loss, Simple, Essentials

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Reading, Punctuation, Accents

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• From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Buddhist, Mean, Views

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Morning, Waiting, Missing

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• When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an 18-year-old I didn't know if I had a huge amount I wanted to express. It was a big moment when I decided I wanted to shift the emphasis or the intention of my art from something I disgorged myself upon and something that actually fed me or made me see the world or understand the world.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, School, Mean

  "Andy Goldsworthy Goes Into The Wind". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

  Betty Friedan

  Home, Nursing, Acceptance

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't have to have a single point of emphasis in the picture. It can be complex, because it's so detailed that the viewer can take time and read it, and look at something here, and look at something there, and they can pay attention to a lot more.

  Stephen Shore

  Looks, Attention, Pay

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• But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

  Hortense Calisher

  Memories, Wreaths, Recalls

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “In the Absence of Angels: Stories”, p.88, Open Road Media

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• That there is little hope of international order or lasting peace so long as every country is free to employ whatever measures it thinks desirable in its own immediate interest, however damaging they may be to others, needs little emphasis now.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Country, Thinking, Order

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don’t see things in the same way that I do.

  Jennifer Hudson

  People, Focus, Way

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.25, Penguin

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• I wonder whether there has been too much emphasis on teaching women to conform, to fit into the system. Certainly that suits conservative organizations in conservative times. But now ... innovation and creativity are necessary.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Teaching, Creativity, Organization

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• I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

  Marina Abramovic

  Communication, Thinking, Silence

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• I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Kids, Race

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Issues, Wind

  "Death of a Salesman at Fifty: An Interview with Arthur Miller". Interview With Colby H. Kullman, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

  Rachel McAdams

  Mother, Growing Up, Looks

  "Rachel McAdams In Vogue: I’m Pretty Good On My Own". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Doors, Gentleman

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.343, Modern Library

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• What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye
  and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by ... creating
  units of intent and emphasis, and by contouring the meloding pitch
  changes in the narrative-line.

  Diane Wakoski

  Eye, Creating, Add

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• I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

  Norman Foster

  School, Littles, Architecture

  Norman Foster, Hyatt Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1999). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1999: presented to Sir Norman Foster”

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