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• Years ago I used to set my alarm for 4 am, so that I could wake up in the middle of a dream and move directly into writing. I guess my favorite poems contain a mixture of intuitive and analytical thought.

  James Arthur

  Dream, Moving, Writing

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three forms of government commonly known in the schools, reserving as much of the monarchical splendor, the aristocratical independency, and the democratical freedom, as are necessary that each of these powers may have a control, both in legislation and execution, over the other two, for the preservation of the subject's liberty.

  John Adams

  School, Government, Two

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.480

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• Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

  Paul Johnson

  America, World, Today

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• The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

  Francis Bacon

  Skills, Creative, Making Love

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• Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

  Lord Byron

  Happiness, Water, Mirth

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.100, Routledge

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• Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.

  Paul Kane

  Technique, Twists, Would Be

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• In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.

  John Howard

  Mean, Government, Favors

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• I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

  Francis Bacon

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

  Francis Bacon

  Lying, Taken, Men

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

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• Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

  Danny Boyle

  Important, Compromise, Judgment

  "Danny Boyle’s Portrait of a Man". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 19, 2015.

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• As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny.

  Tone Bell

  Reality, Joy, Realization

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a mixture of parts in my life.

  Kirk Douglas

  Lonely, Guy, Brave

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• I felt [It Runs in the Family] it was a picture that, after I'm gone, my family would like to see it. It was a wonderful mixture of people in my family.

  Kirk Douglas

  Running, People, Gone

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.

  Bill Peet

  Writing, Yellow, Sketching

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• An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry that conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.

  William C. Brown

  Spiritual, Exercise, Emotional

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• An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Practice, Stupidity, Intuition

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• I am the byproduct of an Ellis Island orgy, basically. I'm everything. I've got quite a mixture in me. I know a lot of it and I don't know some of it. I'm pretty mixed up, but mostly Russian and Irish.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Islands, Ellis Island, Knows

  "Gavin DeGraw speaks out on life and music". The Associated Press interview, www.today.com. February 4, 2005.

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• As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye chaos was. If beer be poured into it & ye mixture let stand till it be dry, the surface of ye curdled substance will appear as rugged & mountanous as the Earth in any place.

  Isaac Newton

  Writing, Beer, Illustration

  Sir Isaac Newton (1959). “Correspondence: 1676-1687”

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• Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Law, Justice, Injustice

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• The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Distance, Moving, Science

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• My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

  Billy Wilder

  Schwarzenegger

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• The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is "ambiguity": the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces-both individual and social.

  Paul Tillich

  Character, Evil, Creative

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• Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Effort, Purpose

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Christian, Imagination, Religion

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books

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• There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

  Bob Herbert

  Power, Arrogance, Incompetence

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