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• It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Symphony, Quiet, Significance

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• Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name) that results in manifestation/s. But these patterns of thought can have so much to do with whimsy that magic often is jokes.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Exercise, Names, Often Is

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• As a reader, you’re often inside one or more character heads, so you know what they’re feeling, even if they can’t exactly say it, or they say it so obliquely that the other characters don’t catch it. Readers are frequently reminded of the gulf between what people say and what they mean, and such moments prod us to become more attuned to gesture, tone, and language.

  Will Schwalbe

  Character, Mean, People

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• The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.

  Anna Kamienska

  Air, Light, Effort

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• Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Yield, Purpose, Generous

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• The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that!

  Roland Barthes

  Children, Shows, Haiku

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• You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - these help you to be steady in ahimsa (absence of violence).

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Hurt, Tolerance, Looks

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• How easily we ignore or forget the small kindnesses and considerations in life which are really the only everyday magic we witness on a regular basis. Just think- to make happiness out of nothing more than a few kind words or a generous gesture.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Kindness, Thinking, Magic

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• You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why... Wherever God motions.

  Marita Bonner

  Feet, Literature, Height

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• Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.

  Serge Lutens

  Writing, Choices Made, Weapons

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• Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.

  Fanny Howe

  Heart, Doubt

  Fanny Howe (2003). “Gone: Poems”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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• Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little help, forgiveness. And the joy we give will certainly come back to us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Giving, Joy, Littles

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• Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Age, Answers

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• A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

  Donnie Yen

  Example, Body, Way

  "Action Star Donnie Yen Talks DRAGON, Why He Turned Down THE EXPENDABLES 2, Period Versus Modern, Whether Breaking Out in the U.S. is a Goal, and More". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. November 29, 2012.

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• F For Fake is a talentless concoction of unparalleled ineptitude... It would have been a more generous gesture to show a retrospective of old Welles films rather than remind everyone of how low his ability as a filmmaker has plummeted.

  Rex Reed

  Fake, Ineptitude, Film

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• The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Writing, Eye, Hands

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

  El Lissitzky

  Voice, Design, Typography

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• You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface - gesture, costume, expression - radically and correctly.

  Richard Avedon

  Real, Expression, Costumes

  "Avedon's Women" by Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 13, 2013.

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• You have to teach yourself to act but Michael Chekhov will give you the necessary tools - and for me, Psychological Gesture and Centers are extremely valuable They work like a charm. I've used them all along and still do.

  Clint Eastwood

  Giving, Tools, Chekhov

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• Being shown a gesture of love is like being offered a portion of God.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love Is, Love Is Like, Portions

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Mar 30, 2011

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• Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God’s life in us.

  Miroslav Volf

  Simple, Echoes, Attention

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• Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none of their business and they will not lose too much sleep over it. The shrug of the shoulders has become - only temporarily, I daresay - the national gesture of Australia.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Sleep

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• Let's develop theories, patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them – acting and justifying our actions with new theories that condemn them. Let's cut a path in life and then go immediately against that path. Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't even wish to be, and don't even wish to taken for being.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Taken, Cutting, Thinking

  "The Book of Disquiet".

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• The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Men, Squares

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays”

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• I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

  Oleg Cassini

  Dog, Hurt, Half

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