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• The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Life, Success, World

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• My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

  Meredith Monk

  Imagine, Form, Music Is

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• It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.

  Stanley Elkin

  Management, Fine, Diamond

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• You can see that the care he took defiling the beauty he had forced in them was as precise and clean as his good hands which at night had developed the negatives, floating the sheets in the correct acids and watching the faces and breasts and pubic triangles and sofas emerge. The making and destroying coming from the same source, same lust, same surgery his brain was capable of. (On New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq)

  Michael Ondaatje

  Night, New Orleans, Hands

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “Coming Through Slaughter”, p.45, A&C Black

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• Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Purpose, Facts

  "The lure of the street" by Geoff Dyer, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2008.

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• There are some filmmakers like the Coen brothers that are very precise. They make shooting boards, they do it shot by shot, and they follow every single line in their own script. They make amazing movies, and I admire them so much, but I can't do that. I have no idea how the movie will exactly be. While shooting, I just try to create an accident that I don't control very well - grabbing things from different sources and ideas, and then having a sensation somewhere that it will make sense.

  Pablo Larrain

  Brother, Ideas, Exactly Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Thirty years ago I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and given two and a half years to live. I have always wondered how they could be so precise about the half.

  Stephen Hawking

  Years, Two, Half

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• I can't remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding's The Lord of the Flies. With The Death of Sweet Mister, Daniel Woodrell has written his masterpiece-spare, dark, and incandescently beautiful. It broke my heart.

  Dennis Lehane

  Beautiful, Sweet, Heart

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• An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.

  Ron Paul

  Reality, People, Perception

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• The problem of physics is how the actual phenomena, as observed with the help of our sense organs aided by instruments, can be reduced to simple notions which are suited for precise measurement and used of the formulation of quantitative laws.
  Experiment and Theory in Physics

  Max Born

  Simple, Law, Measurement

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• Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Algorithms, Facts, Sticks

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• I would like to find a more precise way to not only tell the stories of female characters, but also do so in a female "way." My biggest advice would be to trust yourself.

  Danae Elon

  Character, Advice, Female

  "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Danae Elon – ‘P.S. Jerusalem’". Interview with Freja Dam, www.indiewire.com. September 11, 2015.

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• The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you don't have it. There's not really a middle bit where you're like, "I think we kind of have that scene."

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Thinking, Kind, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• His response is more than sensible. It reflects his understanding that evens unfold as a refelction of precise karmic order and that a benevolent response in all circumstances will be the most healing one. I think he is so universally admired becuase he exemplifies by his behavior the truth that the essence of natural mind, unclouded by greed or anger or delusion, is that of peace.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Peace, Healing, Thinking

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• What will most certainly happen is that there will be very clear and full communication between the government and independents and minor parties. The precise mechanisms will evolve over time, but we certainly intend to keep the minor parties and the independents very much in the loop. We have to if we want our legislative agenda to have a reasonable chance of success and that's what we intend to do.

  Tony Abbott

  Party, Communication, Government

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Men, Imagination, Wheels

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• In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Character, Ideas, Shooting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

  Cate Marvin

  Ideas, People, Readership

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.

  Walter Pater

  Book, Fall, Independent

  Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.96, Cambridge University Press

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• I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Believe, Practice

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• The best doctors found a middle position where they were neither overwhelmed by their feelings nor estranged from them. That was the most difficult position of all, and the precise balance - neither too detached nor too caring - was something few learned.

  Michael Crichton

  Caring, Doctors, Feelings

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.25, Vintage

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• When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings sobbing to you...then you are-happy is not the precise word-filled.

  Marilyn French

  Baby, Motherhood, Laughing

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• The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here

  Herb Caen

  Heaven, Earth, May

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• Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments can generally be trusted only if they remain short; even moderately long nonmathematical arguments rapidly becomes farfetched an dubious.

  Jacob T. Schwartz

  Character, Long, Common Sense

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