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• Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Way, Kind, Achieve

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• It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Running, Hot And Cold

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• The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Expression, History, Effort

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• If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Photography, Art, Real

  1859 'Salon of 1859', section 2, in Curiosites Esthetiques (1868).

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• But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mistake, Echoes, May

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Women, Details, Kind

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• For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof. Thoughts and words, captured where I could see them and track them. The truth, stinging, on my skin, in a freakish shorthand. Tell me you're going to the doctor, and I'll want to cut worrisome on my arm. Say you've fallen in love and I buzz the outlines of tragic over my breast. I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured.

  Gillian Flynn

  Cutting, Doctors, Names

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• I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have. That way, you’ll never dumb things down. You won’t have to explain things that don’t need explaining. You’ll assume an intimacy and a natural shorthand, which is good because readers are smart and don’t wish to be condescended to.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Smart, Writing, Dumb

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• Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

  John L'Heureux

  Real, Discovery, Expression

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• All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Cousin, Children, Sibling

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• Lego was our fourth film, because we did two Cloudys, so yeah there's a little bit of shorthand that's involved and then you can anticipate things- because for me it's like, I get a script for a movie and I go, "Wow that's a pretty good script", then you sign on and a couple months later they show you the first cut and you're like, "Whoa, how did that happen?"

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Couple, Cutting, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for them. We sit down and get to know each other so we have a shorthand.

  Drew Barrymore

  Dancing, Playing Music, Down And

  "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

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• I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the person who is betrayed, but also to the person who is betraying. "Betray" is a sort of shorthand for what happens.

  Andrew Solomon

  Doe, Would Be, Betrayed

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.

  Walter Hill

  Reality, Mundane, Reality Of Life

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think it's a prize when actors and directors or writers and actors work together more than once. You have a trust and a shorthand and a lot of times you even reach the point, where in the process, you don't even have to talk.

  Edward Zwick

  Thinking, Working Together, Directors

  Source: screenrant.com

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• That was cool, because they've all [ George Clooney and Josh Brolin and Scarlett Johansson] worked with the Coens. They were much more at ease with them at the outset, and they were all kind of familiar with the shorthand that the Coens had.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Ease, Kind, Josh

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [The Coen brothers] hire the same people over and over again, so there's a shorthand between all of the people they're working with.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Brother, People, Coen Brothers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What really interests me, on a deeper level, is how our information is coming to us in some kind of messed up way that is making us idiotic. I don't think we've become more idiotic than we always were, but I think the information transfer is funky. The shorthand of it is that social media is making us mentally insane.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Media, Insane

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists, to work out the compositions of his paintings: those are cartoons. Look at his sketch for the return of the prodigal son. The expression on the angry younger brother's face. The head is down; the eyebrow is just one curved line over the eyes. It communicates in a very shorthand way. It's beautiful, expressive, and, in a peculiar way, it's more powerful than the kind of stilted, formalized expression in the final painting.

  Jim Woodring

  Beautiful, Brother, Powerful

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• When I meet certain filmmakers, sometimes you sit down and you do have some kind of shorthand. It can be fun to see them as someone who has been through similar experiences, but also as someone who just loves film. You can talk with them about films in a way that feels really free.

  Noah Baumbach

  Fun, Down And, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there's a distinct difference, it's interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and there is one more, they have no compassion or empathy for other people.

  Cillian Murphy

  Liars, Intelligent, Compassion

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• In A Brief History Of Time I used the word "God" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics. However, this is not what most people mean by God, so I have decided not to use the term. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a God.

  Stephen Hawking

  Mean, Law, People

  "Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

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• Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

  Joyce Brothers

  Intuition, Logic, Kind

  Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”

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• Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

  Erica Jong

  Emotional, Kind

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• Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

  Ernest Cline

  Culture, Use, Pops

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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