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• ... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

  Betsy Lerner

  Writing, Doe, World

  Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• Here's a slightly outrageous tip: Don't respect the text. Just because you've written something down doesn't mean it has a right to exist. If your internal editor can find a better way to say something, junk the original version and go with the new one. If you can't find a better way, and the passage really isn't good, junk it.

  Crawford Kilian

  Writing, Mean, Editors

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• You can imagine a soul as being a detailed, elaborate pattern that exists very clearly in one brain. When a person dies, the original is no longer around. But there are other versions of it in other people's brains. It's a less detailed copy, it's coarse-grained.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  People, Soul, Brain

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• I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

  Penelope Lively

  Kings, Grateful, Agnostic

  "I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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• Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Europe, Ideas, Trying

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• I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.

  Clint Black

  Home, Use, Records

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• When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.

  Gavin Bryars

  Jesus, Glasses, Blood

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• My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.

  Tom Ford

  Goal, Helping

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• Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Moving, Hands, Giving

  Ray Kurzweil (2012). “How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed”, p.180, Penguin

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• American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.

  Chris Hardwick

  Office, Trying, Television

  "Chris Hardwick Reveals Details of BBC America Deal, How Nerdist Podcast Will Be Adapted for TV (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 25, 2011.

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• The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Home, Fighting, Creating

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 8, 2011.

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• This drive to always want more is based on the misconceptions that having more will make me more happy, more important, and more secure, but all three ideas are untrue. Possessions only provide temporary happiness. Because things do not change, we eventually become bored with them and then want newer, bigger, better versions.

  Rick Warren

  Ideas, Bored, Important

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.27, Zondervan

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• Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Hype, Gathering

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• The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth something, worth someone else's time. It's the most I have to offer the world.

  Jami Attenberg

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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• "Mad Men" - it seems like they try to capture this glamorized version of the '50s and '60s advertising culture.

  Geoffrey Gray

  Men, Mad, Trying

  "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.

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• Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself.

  Mother Teresa

  Block, Failure, Expansion

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• We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

  Nelson Goodman

  Creativity, World

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• It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Redneck, Class, America

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• Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mean, Car

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• ...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Inspirational, Reality, Six

  Bruce H. Lipton (2015). “The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles”, p.254, Hay House, Inc

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• Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Law, Adequate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic. It should represent the whole of your personality, I guess, so if somebody is a sincere painter or an ironic painter, then they're just bullshitting the audience and presenting only an idealized version of themselves.

  Joe Bradley

  Personality, Ironic, Want

  Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2013.

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• My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood. I wanted to be able to sit in a room with a guitar and play the song from beginning to end and have it be as impactful as if you heard the studio version with all the bells and whistles.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that.

  Matthew Bellamy

  Thinking, Way, Stage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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