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• The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Details, Kind

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people are going to be reading it in private. So, I'm always trying to write with the immediacy and the constant motion of film but I'm also trying to write with the complete freedom of subject matter that books have.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When I say I had a cosmic confidence that we were capable of writing good music, I'm speaking about that time when we met Sam [Fogarino]. Greg [ex-drummer] is actually a really great drummer and a great guy. I never want to sound like I am belittling his contributions in the early days, but when Sam joined, there was an immediacy of, like, "Here we go."

  Paul Banks

  Writing, Guy, Sound

  "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.

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• Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.

  Margaret Mead

  Sight, Walking Sticks, Handbags

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Future, Past, Mindfulness

  B. Alan Wallace (2014). “Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity”, p.30, Columbia University Press

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• [The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Meditation, Cameras, Energy

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• Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

  Hedrick Smith

  Issues, Personality, Television

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• The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die

  Roberto Unger

  Self, World, Found

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• I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that TV and film can never do, and they have an immediacy that written prose often lacks.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Play, Radio

  "Neil Gaiman Interview". Interview with Trevor Valle, www.bitingdogpress.com.

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• Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms, reducing its particularizing structure to pure sublime feeling (immediacy); but spirit is more successfully infinite than soul, even though also more difficult and abstruse, because it digests the functions of consciousness into itself and thus preserves and deploys the senses and intelligence of conscious ego to higher ends.

  Kenny Smith

  Ego, Soul, Feelings

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• Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.

  Tim Winton

  Distance, Past, Emotional

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• For me photography had an immediacy... I was trying to resolve certain issues. What was fair or unfair about how people lived, and how they had to live? I thought the most penetrating and most immediate way to get to some of those questions was through photography.

  Jerome Liebling

  Photography, Issues, People

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• I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks trying to create something. Now I can see the image right away.

  Mario Sorrenti

  Photography, Trying, Canvas

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• I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

  Ruskin Bond

  Writing, Creative, Stories

  Source: www.abhijitbhaduri.com

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• We used hand-held cameras 50 years ago. It wasn't something new. Sometimes we used a tripod, or we'd have a tracking shot, and sometimes - like when a character was being chased - we used a hand-held camera because it was right for the scene. In those cases, it helped the mood; it created immediacy and a feeling for the viewer that they were in the scene and in the moment.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Character, Hands, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live. As long as it's live, it's the best because there's sort of an immediacy to connection between an audience and a performer, whereas where you do film or television, you're at the whim of so many different forces.

  Darren Criss

  Play, Long, Musical

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

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• Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual.

  David Amerland

  Real, Media, Giving

  David Amerland (2015). “The Social Media Mind: How social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order”, p.59, New Line Publishing

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• Take three conscious breaths. Just pause. Let it be a contrast to being all caught up. Let it be like popping a bubble. Let it be just a moment in time, and then go on. Maybe you are on your way to whatever you need to do for the day. You are in your car, or on the bus, or standing in line. But you can still create that gap by taking three conscious breaths and being right there with the immediacy of your experience, right there with whatever you are seeing, with whatever you are doing, with whatever you are feeling.

  Pema Chodron

  Car, Feelings, Three

  "Take Three Conscious Breaths". www.lionsroar.com. April 2, 2017.

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• The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.

  Damian Loeb

  Photography, People, Age

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• The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.

  George Santayana

  Ignorance, Animal, Expression

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.

  Sarah Paulson

  Reactions, Audience, Knows

  Interview with Julianne Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. Interview with Julianne Moore.

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• Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

  Martin Buber

  Humanity, Encounters, Hours

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• Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now.

  Joel Miller

  Political, Special, Pressure

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• Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Past, Today, Spirituality

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.1096, Aum Publications

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• As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.

  Norman Lock

  Character, Viewpoints, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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