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• She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That's a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works.

  Gary Reilly

  Confused, Balance

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• All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

  George Gershwin

  Jobs, Past, Men

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• We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Cutting, Lessons

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.379, Spectra

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• In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Art, Fun, Writing

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• As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.

  Jenny Downham

  Years, People, Community

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• The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.

  John Corigliano

  Thinking, Challenges, Use

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• I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of girl, liked me; I had a car-not so common among undergraduates in those days-and I had some money. I wasn't ugly; and even more important, I had my loneliness, which, as every cad knows, is a deadly weapon with women. My 'technique' was to make a show of unpredictability, cynicism, and indifference. Then, like a conjurer with his white rabbit, I produced the solitary heart.

  John Fowles

  Girl, Sex, Loneliness

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

  John McGahern

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.

  Linda Olsson

  Photography, Writing, Simple

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• If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

  Marianne Moore

  Artist, Doubt, Interest

  Marianne Moore (1958). “Idiosyncrasy & Technique”

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• You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Heart, Play, Perfect

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• I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

  Rex Stout

  Men, Oddities, Would Be

  Rex Stout (2013). “Fer-de-Lance/The League of Frightened Men”, p.63, Bantam

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• The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong... There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Men, Discovery, Design

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• National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Pride, Mind, Campaigns

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• Still, it's an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else.

  Caleb Carr

  Order, Somewhere Else, Interesting

  Caleb Carr (2010). “The Angel of Darkness”, p.324, Ballantine Books

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• I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.

  Cat Cora

  Cooking, Use, Flavor

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• Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Powerful, Data, Brain

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• It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.

  Deborah Bull

  Strong, Feet, Dancing

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• He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising maths problems and who'd never read a science-fiction book and who would burn out completely before puberty and never amount to anything in their future lives because they'd just practised known techniques instead of learning to think creatively.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Book, Math, Thinking

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• We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.

  Emanuel Celler

  Party, Character, Fighting

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• The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Class, World

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• I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Art, Creativity, Practice

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2004.

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• He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything - his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.

  Jack Youngblood

  Play, Wings, Rams

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• Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

  Jose Garces

  Recipes, Ingredients, Traditional

  "Jose Garces, ‘Iron Chef’ Star, Finds The Latino Road To A Thanksgiving Celebration" By Zuania Ramos, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2012.

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• Yes. I tried to use the same technique with you. I didn't want to pass out.

  Lynsay Sands

  Use, Want

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