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• I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.

  Casey Abrams

  Beautiful, Song, Crazy

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• Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

  Bob Costas

  Humorous, Should Have, Quirky

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• In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect.

  John French Sloan

  Color, Broken, Principles

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• The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.

  Mac Miller

  Rain, Realizing, Backgrounds

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• Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the very texture of my soul, to go on plodding and patient, never taken by surprise by any small temptation, than to gather into myself the strength which God has given me, and, expecting some great storm to come down upon me, to stand fast, and let it rage. It is a great deal easier to die once for Christ than to live always for Him.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Brother, Taken

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 109), 1895.

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• A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Jobs, Doe, Stories

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• It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.

  John Updike

  Women, World, Men

  John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.70, Random House

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• A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

  Carlo Wolff

  Writing, Tone, Authority

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• The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called "sentences." And these sentences into paragraphs, and beyond.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Writing, Together

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• I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Joy, Satisfaction

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.95, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.

  Jaclyn Smith

  Hair, Style, You Choose

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• I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Thinking, Quality, Sound

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• I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

  Ang Lee

  Art, Strong, Book

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

  Martha Plimpton

  Character, Thinking, Zing

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• If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives, which has a bit more color and texture, but the Senate -- jeez. Yes, let's have more testosterone running the country. Maximum Ride, School's Out--Forever

  James Patterson

  Running, Country, School

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• Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

  Joan Didion

  Painting, Novel, Strokes

  "Joan Didion, The Art of Nonfiction No. 1". Interview with Hilton Als, www.theparisreview.org. 2006.

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• Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it.

  Terry Eagleton

  Men, Doe, Culture

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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• I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

  Robert Morgan

  Discovery, Long, Interesting

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• Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Inspiration, Animal, Patterns

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• Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.

  Diane Ackerman

  Weed, Hair, Color

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• In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Lying, Years, Pieces

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• STAY HOME FROM SCHOOL FAUX VOMIT: 1 cup of cooked oatmeal 1.2 cup of sour cream (or buttermilk ranch dressing or anything that smells like rancid, sour milk) 2 chopped cheese sticks (for chunkiness) 1 uncooked egg (for authentic slimy texture) 1 can of split pea soup (for putrid green color) 1/4 cup of raisins (to increase gross-osity) Mix ingredients and simmer over low heat for 2 minutes Let mixture cool to warm vomit temperature Use liberally as needed Makes 4 to 5 cups

  Rachel Renée Russell

  Home, School, Eggs

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• Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?

  Mary Balogh

  Philosophical, Happy Life, Thinking

  Mary Balogh (2009). “Then Comes Seduction”, p.230, Dell

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• Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.

  Audre Lorde

  Forever, Each Day, Fuel

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.126, Courier Dover Publications

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