Inevitability Quotes - Page 5

• Once established, a successful style looks like an inevitability - maybe that's the definition of a successful style - but there's often the time when it looks like anything but.

  David Salle

  Successful, Style, Looks

  "John Baldessar". Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue.

  David Bayles

  Reality, Artist, Vision

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.15, Image Continuum Press

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• Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Character, Half, Firsts

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Art, Dancing

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by my looking death in the eye and accepting it, by accepting destruction as part of life and no longer wasting my energies on fear of death or the refusal to acknowledge its inevitability. It sounds paradoxical: by excluding death from our life we cannot live a full life, and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and enrich it.

  Etty Hillesum

  Mean, Eye, Reality

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• I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.

  Louise Erdrich

  Character, Work Out, Historical

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 2, 2005.

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• Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Survival, Eating, Should

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.614, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whenever you make a record you want to inject something unique into it, that's unique to where you're from. I suppose that's some kind of inevitability.

  Gruff Rhys

  Unique, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

  Lester Bangs

  People, Drug, Historical

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

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• An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

  David Korten

  Historical, Growth, Causes

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• I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

  Rebecca Hall

  Actors, Levels, Want

  "Talk of The Town: Rebecca Hall and Jon Hamm". Interview with Kevin West, www.wmagazine.com. August 1, 2010.

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• And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.

  Karen Russell

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Adequacy, Emotion

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• Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.

  Christopher Lasch

  Safety, Rejection, Retreat

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.196, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Strength, Color, Etc

  Robert Rauschenberg, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (1968). “Robert Rauschenberg”

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• We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon, we're going to go to mars. We all kind of know that on some level, I think actually. So there's an inevitability to human evolution, this being the next step.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Moon, Thinking, Mars

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that the sense of inefficacy and inevitability comes not from thinking the rich are going to have all the educational advantages. No, I think it comes from the sense that politically, the wealthy have overwhelming power in this society and there's nothing, say a lot of people, that we can do about it. That is simply wrong

  Paul Solman

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.

  J. J. Abrams

  Fun, Character, Kissing

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

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• An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  War, Power, Years

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• While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.

  Russell Baker

  Men, People, Life Is

  "So This Is Depravity and Other Observations". Book by Russell Baker, 1980.

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• the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Lying, Ubiquity, Racism

  Patricia J. Williams (2016). “Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race”, p.68, Macmillan

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• In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability.

  Daniel Dennett

  Running, May, Fields

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• Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

  Cornel West

  Possibility, Constant, Probability

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.

  Hugh Howey

  Cells, Years, September 11

  Hugh Howey (2017). “Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral seriousness. Her argument builds a powerful emotional force, a sense of deep inevitability. . . . It is not often that a work of such dark conclusions has felt so hopeful and brave.

  Mark Kingwell

  Powerful, Book, Dark

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