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“Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.”

“It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.”

Easy Sound Term Effort Clean Enthusiasm Short Term Sustaining

Author:William Ruckelshaus

“I don't think I've ever made a conscious effort to alter the sound. I don't see the point. I have to remain true to how I sing. I'm perfectly happy with what I am. Whatever that is.”

Thinking Made Sound Effort Conscious

Author:Steven Morrissey

“Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to me, like 'I'll give you an E for effort.' How about the artist's 'effortlessnesses' instead? It's certainly something, or at least the appearance of something, that I aspire to myself.”

Giving Wells Art Might Artist Sound Effort Week Appearance Working It Aspire Patronizing Peeves

Author:James Nares

“What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

Ifs Believe Political Turns I Believe Sound Effort Teach Democracy Honest Politician Campaigns Former Assumption Latter Unthinkable Burglars Political Campaign Good Politicians

Book:PREJUDICES A SELECTION

Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION

“The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing.”

Real Funny Sound Effort Dying Breathing California Attractive Cemetery

Book:I KID YOU NOT

Source: I KID YOU NOT

“The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not explain what it sounds like ... If the spark isn't smoldering somewhere inside one, no efforts can ever bring it into existence. Water cannot catch fire.”

Ifs Feelings Sound Water Religious Effort Existence Fire Melody Sparks

Book:Only One Year

Source: Only One Year

“The national research effort, upon which so much depends, will remain healthy only so long as there is sound core of disinterested search for new knowledge and an adequate number of men and women trained for carrying on such research and for teaching young scientists.”

Men Long Young Sound Numbers Effort Teaching Depends Healthy Research Men And Women Scientist Core Adequate Disinterested Carrying On New Knowledge

Author:Alan Tower Waterman

“The group-effort sound in recording of Sea Lion is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. Theres a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.”

People Real Energy Sound Rooms Effort Groups Sea Like You Train Lions Group Effort

Author:Feist

“People are more likely to search for specific books in which they are actively interested and that justify all of that effort of reading them. Electronic images and sounds, however, thrust themselves into people's environments, and the messages are received with little effort. In a sense, people must go after print messages, but electronic messages reach out and touch people. People will expose themselves to information in electronic media that they would never bother to read about in a book.”

People Littles Book Reading Sound Effort Environment Media Information Television Messages Bother Justify Print Reach Out Thrust Electronic Media

Author:Joshua Meyrowitz

“When I was a freshman in college, I went to a broadcast class by mistake. The first day, the instructor said, "Television anchors sound like they could be from everywhere and nowhere." From that point on, every time I was near an anchor, when no one was around, they would say something and I would say it right after them. It was this effort to get rid of my accent.”

Firsts Said Sound Effort Mistake Class Television College Accents Anchors Instructors Freshman

Author:Charles M. Blow

“All those "getting hit/losing rings" sounds tend to be recorded toward the end of a recording session. Depending on the type of game, those efforts and screams can be pretty rough on the voice, so they usually like to record them at the end. You might do hundreds of versions of vocal sounds for a game and you can come out a little hoarse afterward.”

Littles Ends Might Games Sound Voice Effort Records Type Losing Rings Versions Rough Scream Session Vocal

Author:Roger Craig Smith

“I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my pictures have to be turned into these sounds. It's an effort to be alive. It's work. But writing is wonderful.”

Way Writing Sound Effort Alive Wonderful

Author:Augusten Burroughs