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“If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.”

Ifs Way Enough Speak Clear Imagine Myth Enormous Symbols Colour Interpretation Rainbow Folklore

Author:Diana Wynne Jones

“When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood Mac - the original Peter Green Fleetwood Mac, Saveloy Brown - like British blues interpretations of it,' which then, when I started the liner notes and seeing all these names, I was like, 'Who's Willie Dixon?' Then I go to the record store and ask the guy there and he goes, 'Oh, you don't know anything.' And so, to me, that's the root of most of it anyway.”

Knows Years America Guy Asks Names Records Seeing Roots Originals Green Notes British Stores Brown Interpretation Peter Macs Record Stores Fleetwood Mac

Author:Paul Weller

“It's not enough to identify the Superobjective intellectually; you have to justify it, to find the emotional drive behind it. You need your own specific interpretation of the superobjective so that every time you think of it, it makes you emotional and drives you into action.”

Thinking Needs Enough Action Acting Behinds Emotional Justify Interpretation

Book:The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

Source: The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

“My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph.”

Photography Photograph Interpretation Subjective

Author:Bill Jay

“All of us live at the feeling level, and our feelings are in large part a result of the way we perceive things. You observe or are told something, you interpret it, and only then do you have a reaction at the feeling level. The point is that feeling is preceded by perception, and all of us are capable of controlling our interpretation [the associations and assumptions] of what we see. If we can control our interpretation, then it logically follows that we can exercise some control over our feelings as well.”

Ifs Way Wells Feelings Levels Results Exercise Gratitude Perception Capable Reactions Perceive Assumption Interpretation Association

Author:Michael LeBoeuf

“We need to acknowledge that there is a real issue with how the Scriptures are being interpreted. Whenever I am told that terrorists are not Muslim, I systematically reply that they actually are, and they cannot be marginalised, the same way they are marginalising other Muslim people. Scriptures are quoted even though their interpretations are twisted. In the face of misinterpretation the only way out would be using another interpretation of the Scriptures.”

People Way Needs Real Would Be Faces Issues Scripture Terrorist Acknowledge Interpretation Twisted Misinterpretation

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Great works - and I think Star Wars is a great work - are easily susceptible to multiple plausible interpretations. Some of them are pretty nutty, but the idea that we should see it as profoundly feminist, or as a deeply Christian tale, or as a Freudian exercise... I think all of those have some truth.”

Thinking Should Ideas War Christian Stars Exercise Feminist Tales Interpretation Multiple Great Work Susceptible Plausible Nutty

Author:Cass Sunstein

“Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life, people do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that's how it should be. The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.”

People Way Should Mean Doe Different Christian Culture Jesus Differences Listening Argument Christian Life One Way Interpretation Disciple Different Cultures Different Interpretations

Author:Alan Green

“I try not to have too specific notions because it messes up the process later on. I leave it very open to interpretation until I start casting. Everything changes a lot when you start casting. I mean everything.”

Trying Mean Process Notion Mess Interpretation Casting Things Change

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“We have a lot of choice about whether to interpret something as adversity or as opportunity. I see in myself the tendency at times to make situations worse than they have to be because of my catastrophic interpretation.”

Choices Opportunity Situation Adversity Tendencies Interpretation

Author:Marianne Williamson

“People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression.”

People Challenges Healing Quality Known Greater Healthy Mets Illness Live Life Consistent Interpretation Desperation

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'”

“More than anything, I think everything about appearance is illusory. People see you, and they think they understand what you're projecting, but actually, they have their own interpretation of it, or they put a label on you.”

People Thinking Appearance Labels Interpretation Illusory

Author:Annie Lennox

“I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit, and one had to learn that it's OK, people will do that, and you don't always have to explain it one hundred percent, because they're never going to accept what your own interpretation is. It's all illusory.”

People Men Different Numbers Accepting Gay Percent Hundred Suits Labels Interpretation Illusory

Author:Annie Lennox

“The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it also depends on interpretation. It's very similar to how you grow a master plan: it's an objective document, but at the same time it is a lyrical document which allows through interpretation to become a harmonious work of art.”

Way Writing Art Grows Plans Masters Depends Truth Is Objectives Code Interpretation Works Of Art Documents Precise Harmonious Lyrical

Author:Daniel Libeskind

“Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.”

Attention Perception Interpretation Selective

Book:Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing

Source: Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing

“You can compare Holmes and Watson to great Shakespearean characters, in a way. They've been played by hundreds of actors over the years, and each one is a different interpretation - the source material can take that form of interpretation.”

Way Years Different Character Form Actors Materials Source Compare Interpretation Holmes Watson Different Interpretations

Author:Jude Law

“I know that might sound perverse because I played Julian Assange but, honestly, I don't think it would be fair for me to judge the man. I realize that makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I was portraying him a certain way, but we were always open to the fact that this was an interpretation, not any kind of exact evidence of who the man was.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Kind Facts Might Would Be Certain Bits Sound Realizing He Man Judging Evidence Fairs Honestly Interpretation Hypocrite Portraying Assange

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I'm very moved by the fact that people are drawn into the pictures and that they do bring their own history and their own interpretation to the photograph. I think that's why they work in a certain way.”

People Thinking Way Facts Certain Moved Photograph Interpretation

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“Freemasonry, Judaism, and Occultism, whose alliance and reciprocal interpretation no longer require demonstration.”

Jew Interpretation Judaism Demonstration Alliances Reciprocal Freemasonry

Author:Leon V. DePoncins

“I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways.”

People Way Whole Process Hollywood Cameras Myth Dramatic Interpretation Suspicious Don't Trust

Author:Wayne White

“We have this huge, massive information, but what is it that matters? What doesn't matter? What makes sense, what doesn't make sense? You have to have a framework for understanding and of interpretation in order to make use of the information.”

Matter Use Order Understanding Information Huge Make Sense Massive Interpretation Framework

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second, a set of duties, not deduced from but derived from this principle, by way of its interpretation or specification, its application to the general conditions of human life - which Kant does in the Doctrine of virtue, the second main part of the Metaphysics of Morals; and then finally an act of judgment, through which these duties are applied to particular cases.”

“This is the launch of the Doctor Strange film interpretation, of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted many times by other graphic artists and this is just our graphic interpretation of The Ancient One. I would say the whole approach is about a kind of fluidity.”

Kind Has Beens Whole Film Artist Views Strange Approach Doctors Ancient Classic Interpretation Graphic Fluidity Graphic Artist

Author:Tilda Swinton

“There are many graphic artists who have interpreted The Ancient One as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, we're kind of shifting that a bit. We're trying not to be fixed, we're trying not to be fixed to any one thing, any one gender, any one spiritual discipline, and any one race even; we're just trying to wing it beyond that. So it's a new gesture really, just another interpretation.”

“If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.”

Ifs Needs May Might Trouble Understood Interpretation

Author:Ry Cooder

“Through fashion I have shown my interpretation of the competitive spirit by dressing sportsmen and women, choosing to work with both those who are among the world's most renowned athletes and also those who are yet to achieve fame in the arena of sport.”

World Spirit Sports Achieve Fashion Fame Men And Women Athlete Interpretation Arena Dressings Sportsman Renowned Competitive Spirit

Author:Giorgio Armani

“I wouldn't claim to know what another person is thinking. I can imagine it, but it's my interpretation, and I try to make that clear. It's my vision of what I think their life is. I don't think there are empirical truths in that regard.”

Thinking Knows Trying Persons I Can Life Is Vision Clear Imagine Claims Regard Interpretation

Author:Cass McCombs

“In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French Revolution better than another? What makes one interpretation of "Waiting for Godot" better than another? These questions led me to philosophy and then to philosophy of science.”

Philosophy Courses Literature Waiting Interest Revolution Explanation Interpretation Philosophy Of Science French Revolution Godot Waiting For Godot

Author:Elliott Sober

“Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal of all scientific inference - finding propositions that are true, or finding propositions that are predictively accurate. In fact, there are multiple goals. Sometimes realism is the right interpretation of a scientific problem, while at other times instrumentalism is.”

Sometimes Facts Problem Goal Findings Regard Philosopher Doctrine Assumption Interpretation Accurate Realism Multiple Propositions Inference

Author:Elliott Sober

“I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera.”

Roles Performances Cameras Interpretation Auditions

Author:Zachary Quinto

“The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt like they were singing at you - you felt Sinatra was singing to you. It's a very intimate art form, and that's what I responded to - the intimacy of his performance.”

Art Form Felt Listening Singing Performances Intimacy Intimate Interpretation Frank

Author:Robert Davi

“Writing two stories [in the Thorn and the Blossom] about the same set of events that were complete stories in themselves, but also added up to a larger story. As I was writing them, I kept going back and forth, because something would happen in one story that would have to be reflected in the other story. And yet the same event would also have to be perceived in different ways by Brendan and Evelyn, because they are different people with their own interpretations.”

People Way Writing Two Different Stories Happens Events Different Ways Interpretation Different Peoples Back And Forth

Author:Theodora Goss

“We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic view of that situation.”

Thinking Film Views Situation Interpretation Observant Journalistic

Author:Stephen Mallinder

“It's a fun thing to do, to put yourself in the service of something if you think you can add an interpretation. It's no different than any other storytelling.”

Ifs Thinking Different Fun Add Storytelling Things To Do Interpretation Fun Things

Author:Joss Whedon

“The only thing we took out was the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the interpretation of the Constitution. We had 63,000 people registered on the Freedom Registration form. And we tried from every level to go into the regular Democratic Party medium. We tried from the precinct level. The 16th of June when they were holding precinct meetings all across the state, I was there and there was eight of us there to attend the meeting, and they had the door locked at 10 o'clock in the morning. This is what's happening in the State of Mississippi.”

People States Form Levels Party Morning Doors Happenings Constitution Democratic Meetings Eight Mediums Clock Interpretation Locked June Democratic Party Mississippi Registration

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“I like to write music that I feel like I would listen to. It's like my interpretation of what I want to hear.”

Want Feels Writing Interpretation

Author:Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza

“By now even the word socialism has so many meanings and interpretations. The Russians call themselves socialists, the Swedes call themselves. And let's not forget that in Germany there was also a national socialism.”

Forget Socialism Germany Interpretation

Author:Indira Gandhi

“There are stories of Maui everywhere in the South Pacific. They're different. Different areas have different interpretations. But and so we [with John Musker] fashioned, that was kind of the inspiration and we came up with a very simple basic storyline, focusing on Maui.”

Kind Different Stories Inspiration Simple Areas South Interpretation Pacific Storyline Maui Different Interpretations

Author:Ron Clements

“Sometimes I do it more literally, sometimes I do a little softer [interpretation], but I'm just inspired by the past.”

Littles Sometimes Past Inspired Interpretation

Author:Zendaya

“Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.”

Long Pages Interpretation Frank Regulation Dodd Frank

Author:Jamie Dimon

“[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.”

Men States Dream Desire Simple Deals Constant Noise Substance Unconscious Interpretation Sensations Discovering Protected Mixtures Dens Interpretation Of Dreams

Author:Erich Fromm

“From my personal experience I can conclude that many dreams are clearly written but there are some in which one meets distortions to decipher. And it is really in knowing when one must prefer the one or the other approach, or a combination of the two, that remains one of the important elements of the art of dream interpretation.”

Art I Can Two Important Dream Knowing Written Elements Approach Remains Combination Interpretation Distortion Personal Experiences Decipher

Author:Erich Fromm

“There are so many interpretations that this film [The Lobster] could be approached from. But Yorgos [Lanthimos] is so specifically minded, he's so clinical in his direction of the film.”

Film Interpretation Clinicals Lobster

Author:Colin Farrell

“The script is the musical score, and everyone has to play off that score. Even I have to interpret it. The producers are there to eliminate obstacles to that interpretation.”

Play Musical Scripts Obstacles Producers Score Interpretation

Author:Rebecca Miller

“Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.”

Doe Video Visuals Interpretation Adam

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“St. Augustine explicitly warns against a very narrow perspective that will put our faith at risk of looking ridiculous. If you step back from that one narrow interpretation, what the Bible describes is very consistent with the Big Bang.”

Ifs Bigs Steps Risk Perspective Ridiculous Consistent Interpretation Bangs Augustine

Author:Richard Dawkins

“If the world economy is divided into isolated economic blocs of this kind, it will be rather difficult to achieve the same interpretation and application of international rules of economic activity and world trade.”

Ifs World Kind Difficult Economy Economic Achieve Activity Trade International Interpretation Divided Application Isolated World Trade World Economy

Author:Vladimir Putin

“One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.”

People Interpretation

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very little in the history of interpretation [as Elie Wiesel has]. I've been interested in it, but I have not contributed to that field, really.”

Littles Has Beens Done Fields Areas Historical Critics Interpretation Professional Work

Author:Hershel Shanks

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