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“My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time.”

Long Different Together Literature Process Novel Periods Elements Sparks Long Periods Of Time

Author:Donna Tartt

“I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.”

Made Streets Elements Made It

Author:Mary J. Blige

“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.”

Faith Doubt Elements Opposites Doubted Faith And Doubt

Author:Paul Tillich

“Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.”

Wells Philosophy Teach Elements Yoga Cycles Longevity Sister Ayurveda

Author:Christy Turlington

“It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.”

Hands Sports Conditions Elements Strategy Response Rely Unlimited Rely Upon

Book:The Art of Peace

Source: The Art of Peace

“I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.”

Needs Believe Art Important Able I Believe Listening Becoming Elements Musician Ears Importance Musical Developing Components Decipher

Author:Steve Vai

“When I use the word 'healing', by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.”

Thinking Mean Done Use Jobs Spiritual Healing Broken Terrible Disease Elements Medicine Very Good Legs Violation Skis Why Me

Author:Abraham Verghese

“I find so many songwriters today are missing an element ... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.”

Way Today Song Missing Elements Productions Songwriters

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.”

Elements Surprise Capture Element Of Surprise

Author:M. Ward

“'Paranormal 1' scared me because I didn't know if it was real or what. 'Blair Witch' was kind of scary for the same reason. It takes the voyeur element away and makes you think, 'Oh crap, this could really happen to me.'”

Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Real Reason Happens Elements Scared Scary Paranormal Witch Crap Make You Think Blair

Author:Marlon Wayans

“To me, skating should look effortless even when you're doing the hardest of elements.”

Should Looks Elements Hardest Skating Effortless

Author:Johnny Weir

“When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.”

Way Kind Emotion Audience Building Elements Program Standing Sensations Cheer Most Amazing Sportsman Footwork

Author:Johnny Weir

“Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.”

People Kind Dream Wanted Enjoy Growing Up Growing Band Elements Harder Crowds Coming Out Punk Surfing Gigs

Author:Florence Welch

“The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.”

Different Song Sound Elements Unique Jazz Songwriting Zombie Classical Music

Author:Paul Weller

“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”

Has Beens Art Done Literature Fear Common Modern Elements Art Is Dread Symptoms Immature Immaturity Modern Art

Author:Edith Wharton

“True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.”

Looks Real Passion Strong Love Is Quality Wise Elements Mere True Love Calm Contrary Devotion Abiding Fiery True Love Is My True Love Impetuous Strong Passion What Is True Love

Author:Ellen G. White

“The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.”

Love Is Sweet Pure Elements Jazz Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Amy Winehouse

“When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.”

Looks Self Shows Found Humour Degrees Elements Mirrors Disappointment Ridiculous Frightened Portraits Introspection Self Portrait

Author:Robert Winston

“Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.”

Book Happens Literature Situation Elements Stable Rogues

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.”

Literature Animal Crazy Fine Behavior Elements Introducing Cages Rogues Animal Behavior

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.”

Men Together Understanding Generations Depends Civilization Elements Tradition Bounds Golden Links Vitality Renaissance

Book:Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses

Source: Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses

“There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.”

May I Can Play America Courses Chance Tree Elements Hopefully Sand Australia Links Scotland Belts Golfers Backyards

Author:Tiger Woods

“Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.”

Ifs Should Fighting Interest Elements Fund Should I Railway Vested Interests

Author:Lalu Prasad Yadav

“From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.”

Action Film Actors Directors Elements Producers Makers Dynamics Choreographers

Author:Donnie Yen

“The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.”

Stories Bigs Scene Elements Rhythm Plot Commercialism

Author:Zhang Yimou

“Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.”

Trying May Certain Elements

Author:Ron Ziegler

“Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.”

Wanted Fall Rocks Elements Inspired London Lifestyle Classic Rock N Roll Intricate Moody Baroque Equestrian

Author:Rachel Zoe

“The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, it becomes a religion acceptable to the contemporary, naturalistic mind only when it ceases to be a religion.”

Giving Mind Reason Sound Teaching Buddhism Elements Philosophical Core Cease Contemporary Interpretation Acceptable Secular Supernatural Elements

Author:Julian Baggini

“There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.”

Way Want Action Games Audience Design Fit Elements Computer Gun Hollywood Constant Observation Genre Vehicle Popcorn Mould Allegory Rollercoaster Computer Graphics

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.”

Long Ideas Cutting Revolution Elements Stones Ancient Temples Technological Columns Colony Industrial Revolution Impetus North Africa

Author:Martin Filler

“Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved.”

Ifs Knows Made Imagination Natural Know How Building Materials Products Involved Elements Method Architecture Traditional Architect Conventional Components Avant Garde Natural Elements

Author:Martin Filler

“The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.”

Bigs Song Sound Elements Harmony Backgrounds Formulas Arrangements Vocal Choir

Author:Greg Graffin

“Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.”

Should May Hard Done Government Age Behinds Doors Achieve Subjects Demand Elements Working It Diplomacy Bureaucrats Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!”

Men World Might Elements Gentle Memorable Eulogy Julius

Author:William Shakespeare

“Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible.”

Men World Two Reason Creatures Elements Invisible Visible Divided Distinguished

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.”

Character Faces Personality Elements Unique

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present and pave the way to a better future. For example, if we delve more deeply into ancient Egyptian and African civilisations we will discover the humanistic elements that were prevalent in many areas of life. Women enjoyed a high status and rights, which they later lost when class patriarchal society became the prevalent social system.”

Source: The Nawal El Saadawi Reader

“The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.”

Thinking Feels Culture Christ Deals Personality Development Elements Catholic South Novelists Prophet Department Sociology Embarrassment Shouting Kinship Backwoods

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all.”

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare

“I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Kind Bigs Would Be Action Elements Analysis If I Could Defence Retrospective

Author:Russell Brand

“A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).”

Ifs Humans Desire Car Events Drama Elements Machines Speed Factors Consumers Liberation Goods Aggression Crash Harness Car Crash Libido

Author:J. G. Ballard

“The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.”

Important Values Force Elements Criminals Artistic Questioning

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”

Source: The Art of Seeing Things: Essays

“It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.”

Looks Dream Regret Elements Sad Day

Author:John Knowles

“Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”

Years Mind Made Said Soul Earth Bits Class Honor Elements Years Ago Prison Criminals Kinship Commonality Lower Class Your Honor

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to extinguish himself in God or Nirvana—analogous perhaps to the tendency among artists to obliterate themselves with alcohol or opiates. But if we value our participation in a shared reality in which it makes sense to make sense, then such self-abnegation would deny a central element of our humanity: the need to speak and act, to share our experience with others.”

Ifs Needs Self Play Reality Would Be Artist Values Humanity Choices Speak Share Elements Deny Alcohol Tendencies Mysterious Make Sense Participation Mystic Opiates Abnegation Free Play

Author:Stephen Batchelor

“Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.”

Important Government Law Quality Leader Depends Elements Method Machinery Governance Subordinates Good Governance Personal Qualities

Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.”

“There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.”

Two Leadership Numbers Elements Campaigns Leadership By Famous Leaders

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.”

Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus

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