Immediacy Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• I wanted to preserve the feeling of remembering her just months after her death - the raw immediacy of it, so the drafts were really about getting the language right, getting the pitch right, keeping the voice austere and plainspoken.

  Paul Lisicky

  Voice, Feelings, Months

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room

  James Vance

  Lonely, Men, Shadow

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the immediacy of first person experience. I'd spent a lot of time from 1995-1998 focusing almost exclusively on poetry, and it's an incredibly difficult form in which to achieve a sustained comic tone unless you're Alexander Pope.

  Kevin Keck

  Age, Fans, Firsts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and photography. The creativity comes with the editing. You can layer and cut and paste. I really love that it's like another form of making my smaller collages but in video form.

  Mickalene Thomas

  Photography, Creativity, Cutting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

  Tina Fey

  Years, Television, Nine

  "Tina Fey, Movie Star? Not Quite Yet, She Says". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. March 22, 2013.

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• I've talked about how the future of journalism will be a hybrid future where traditional media players embrace the ways of new media (including transparency, interactivity, and immediacy) and new media companies adopt the best practices of old media (including fairness, accuracy, and high-impact investigative journalism).

  Arianna Huffington

  Believe, Player, Impact

  "Huffington hits out at Murdoch speech" by Mercedes Bunz, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2009.

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• Certainly it's great to be able to talk to your friends about something. They might mention a film, and you can find all about it, and you don't have to wait months until you can find a book that might cover the subject and keep it in your head. You can have that kind of immediacy. But there's also something about it, where all the knowledge seems kind of fleeting. All the stuff I learn about in that way, I can be interested in for a day and then it's gone.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Waiting, Stuff

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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