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• This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Vines

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• But I had never drawn on a tablet before. I've been doing pencil and paper and film for almost 20 years. I wanted to try something different. I wanted to teach myself some digital stuff in advance of a bigger feature project that's coming up, and I took to it really quickly.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Years, Trying, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the gifts and talents that are ours. You ask about possible vehicles for change: question, stand, speak, act. Engage in unruly behavior. Disturb the status quo. Take direct action. Commit civil disobedience. Make art. Build community. Dance. Sing. Farm. Cook. Create something beautiful and then give it away. Find your own monkey wrench and use it with the force of love. Sharpen your pencil. Vote.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Art, Direct Action

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Whatever artistry may occur within the manuscript, the magic happens for me in the last draft. Whatever I have been resistant to say must finally be said. In the end, I see where my pencil has been leading me.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Magic, May, Lasts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.

  E. J. Hughes

  Years, Drawing, Use

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• Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.

  E. J. Hughes

  Drawing, Watches, Lines

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• The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.

  E. J. Hughes

  Painting, Figures

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• Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.

  A. E. Coppard

  Loneliness, Home, Wind

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• Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.

  Jeff MacNelly

  Writing, Simple, Typewriters

  "Fictional character: Prof. Cosmo Fishhawk". "Shoe" by Jeff MacNelly, 1977-2000.

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• An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor uses his body to convey feeling and emotion. An animator uses a pencil or a computer to create the same thing, the same exact way... An actor is taking words that are not his own, and he has to bring some kind of authentic life to those words. It's the same goal, to create this authentic life. Even if it's a drawing, or if it's a cartoon, you're still trying to create authenticity because, if the character emotes authentically, it has a power to connect with the audience.

  Rob Minkoff

  Character, Play, Drawing

  "Director Rob Minkoff Exclusive Interview THE LION KING 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2011.

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• No one can write their real religious life with pen or pencil. It is written only in actions, and its seal is our character, not our orthodoxy. Whether we, our neighbor, or God is the judge, absolutely the only value of our religious life to ourselves or to anyone is what it fits us for and enables us to do.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Religious, Real, Writing

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• I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

  John Philip Sousa

  Writing, Twenties, Paper

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• You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Important, Paper

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.837, Simon and Schuster

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• The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.

  George Steiner

  Book, Reading, Hands

  George Steiner (2010). “No Passion Spent”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

  John Betjeman

  Visions Of The Future, Towers, Fields

  John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.177, A&C Black

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• One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

  John Cage

  Mistake, Writing, Years

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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• My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.

  Donald Knuth

  Writing, Style, Machines

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• If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.

  Terry Brooks

  Grateful, Writing, Hands

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.165, Del Rey

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• I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.

  Moss Hart

  Time, Opportunity, Thinking

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Taken, Past, Decision

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• How do you get rid of hiccups? Drink water upside-down and put a pencil in your mouth. Is that possible?

  Heidi Montag

  Water, Hiccups, Mouths

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• When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Notebook, Prayer, Heart

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• It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, World, Social

  William Graham Sumner (1924). “Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner”

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• You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself." "Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.

  Douglas Adams

  Writing, Pockets, Would Be

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Five Novels in One Outrageous Volume”, p.830, Del Rey

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• A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.

  Aphra Behn

  Soul, Mind, World

  Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.88, 谷月社

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