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• Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.

  Jo Nesbo

  Past, Two, Voice

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• The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.

  Thomas Banchoff

  Powerful, Tools, Ontology

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• There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

  Zac Posen

  New York, Crafts, Reason

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• My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

  Guy Ritchie

  Jobs, Interesting, Looks

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• When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

  Frank Stella

  Meat, Thrill, May

  Stephanie Rosenthal, Ad Reinhardt, Haus der Kunst München, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella (2006). “Black paintings”

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• If negative auric vibrations are not kept to a minimum by using psychic shielding techniques, and if they aren't cleansed from our subtle body through meditation, they will accumulate and eventually become very toxic.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Meditation, Toxic

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Higher meditation is not taught through techniques or words. The real meditation experience is taught inwardly. You shift a person through different dimensional planes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Real, Buddhism

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• The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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• There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

  Gore Verbinski

  Believe, Stories, Genre

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• I am taking my production style more into the world of dub. I mean true dub production techniques but in house music.

  Subb-an

  Mean, House, Style

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• Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sunset, Buddhism, Practice

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• Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Practice

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• You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Littles

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• ...he had a fascinating technique of gnawing his cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, as if his teeth were equipped with trolley tracks, and suddenly grabbing it out and gesticulating wit it before he jammed it back.

  Leslie Ford

  Track, Teeth, Mouths

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• For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Philosophy, Moving, Destiny

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar

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• Surrender is the ultimate technique to merge with existence.

  Swami Nithyananda

  Surrender, Existence, Ultimate

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• Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Serial Killer, Use, Killers

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• I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

  Rick Baker

  Trying, Modern, Currents

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• One of the best lovers in Hollywood. What would a title like that encompass exactly? She wondered. Technique? Enthusiasm? Or was it more about equipment?

  Sarah Mayberry

  Best Love, Hollywood, Titles

  Sarah Mayberry (2008). “Burning Up”, p.57, Harlequin

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• I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.

  Stewart Copeland

  Favourite, Duplicate

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• During the last 2,500 years in Buddhist monasteries, a system of seven practices of reconciliation has evolved. Although these techniques were formulated to settle disputes within the circle of monks, i think they might also be of use in our households and in our society.The first practice is Face-to-Face-Sitting.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Thinking, Years

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Brilliant, Problem, Squandering

  Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Play, Age, Entertainment

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• The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.

  B. F. Skinner

  Jesus, Men, Opposites

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• Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

  Bram Cohen

  Technology, Views, Law

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