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“Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.”

Giving Ideas Done Skills Technique Debate Dexterity

Book:A Question of Attraction: A Novel

Source: A Question of Attraction: A Novel

“It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.”

People Play Used Hurt Tests Technique Cricket Temperament Hurt Me

Author:Gautam Gambhir

“It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was fascinating to me was that somehow it appears the techniques that we have feared most in the world would be used on our people, we are using on people in our custody.”

People Ifs World Would Be Used Views Taken Worst Technique Fascinating Captives Custody

Author:Jane Mayer

“If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.”

Ifs Knows Trying Facts Might Law Purpose Responsibility Soldier Technique Practicals Unusual Saddam Interrogation Above The Law Interrogation Techniques

Author:Janis Karpinski

“Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.”

Knows Sports Boring Technique Karate

Author:Jean-Claude Van Damme

“I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.”

Knows Character Technique Charm

Author:Jeremy Irons

“After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of mediocrity, which can easily master enough of the star techniques to produce inoffensive personalities and enough of the rational vocabulary to create the sounds of competence.”

Has Beens Enough Political Force Stars Sound Produce Masters Personality Periods Politician Technique Rational Mediocrity Void Vocabulary Competence

Book:Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

Source: Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

“The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day-a way of relating.”

Way Humans Art Form Novel Highest Pages Technique Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.”

Knows Trying Acting Technique Zone

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.”

Men Moving Subjects Painting Technique Inevitable Realms Inseparable

Author:Lee Krasner

“I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems.”

Thinking Use Christianity Healthy Evidence Technique Journalistic

Author:Lee Strobel

“"The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique."”

Mean Said Missing Technique Evening Suspects Excess Relieved Velocity

Book:The Diamond Age

Source: The Diamond Age

“It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get a lot done - very rarely include techniques for 'getting motivated' or 'feeling inspired'. Quite the opposite: they tend to emphasise the mechanics of the working process, focusing not on generating the right mood, but on accomplishing certain physical actions, regardless of mood.”

People Done Feelings Action Artist Certain Process Opposites Notes Inspired Technique Mood Ritual Motivated Mechanic Illuminating

Author:Oliver Burkeman

“I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.”

Thinking Fundamentals Technique

Author:Robin Trower

“The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, that reveal its fissures and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will one day appear in the Messianic light.”

World Philosophy Light Faces Perspective One Day Despair All Things Mere Technique Redemption Contemplating Shed Standpoint Reconstruction Crevice

Author:Theodor Adorno

“Let's review the cost-free techniques that we've learned so far for raising an achievement-oriented, obedient, drug-free, virgin adult: Calamity, Praise, Local Theater, and flat feet. Another key element is "Strong Father Figure / Fear Thereof."”

Father Strong Feet Figures Keys Cost Drug Elements Achievement Adults Theater Praise Technique Locals Flats Reviews Virgins Calamity Obedient Father Figure Drug Free

Author:Tina Fey

“All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.”

World War States Party Plans Position Messages Concepts Technique Propaganda Germany Resurrection Pregnant Socialist Marxism Summit Programmes

Book:The Gathering Storm

Source: The Gathering Storm

“The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.”

Firsts Wells Effort Steps Car Skills Approach Technique Driving New Skills Dance Steps

Author:Antony Sher

“The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.”

Journey Projects Majors Training Areas Technique Discrimination Employment Peaceful Organized Reconciliation Crow Eliminating Jim Crow Armed Services

Book:Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

Source: Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

“You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?”

Needs Play Jazz Technique

Author:Charlie Watts

“It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally.”

Doe Seems Available Technique Worried Barriers Phenomenon Molecules Chemist Rotation

Author:Derek Barton

“The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.”

Century Changed Surface Technique 20th Century

Author:Howard Hodgkin

“There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.”

Ends Use Political Certain Numbers Extremes Technique Behaviour Extremist

Author:Jean-Francois Cope

“That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.”

Said Stills Modern Changed Historical Technique Fantastic Cooks Ingredients Recipes Cornbread

Author:Jeremy Jackson

“When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it's more about technique than physical strength.”

Whole Use Body Technique Rings Physical Strength

Author:Kuno Becker

“We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.”

Firsts Use Exercise Technique Impulse Evident Modifying Controlling Things

Author:Leo Ornstein

“One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.”

Technique Terrorist Torture Captured Mistreatment

Author:Linda Chavez

“By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.”

Way Has Beens Whole Light Race Magic Technique Screens Parks Herds Dinosaurs Simulation Jurassic Park

Author:Marvin Minsky

“I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.”

Want Writing Years Technique Enthusiasm

Author:Nick Bantock

“Polytechnique is a school whose multi disciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.”

School Levels Technique Curriculum Invaluable School Curriculum Multidisciplinary

Author:Philippe Perrin

“An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.”

Firsts May Artist Values Emotion Subjects Filled Shining Forgotten Technique Sincere Shining Through

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.”

People Trying Asks Difficult Simple Strategy Technique Handle Like Me Administration These Days

Author:Ron Suskind

“I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.”

Made Home Running Used Strong Advantage Legs Technique Home Run Wrestler Strong Legs

Author:Sadaharu Oh

“Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.”

Sometimes Games Sports Technique Injury

Author:Troy Vincent

“I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.”

Writing Fall Acting Singing Technique Fall Back

Author:Jane Lynch

“It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that the boundaries of special disciplines were not respected... Trespassing is one of the most successful techniques in science.”

Firsts Made Facts Would Be Science Interesting Successful Progress Special Discipline Essentials Technique Boundaries Trespassing Advances In Science

Author:Wolfgang Kohler

“No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.”

Matter Masters Available Accomplish Technique Productivity Priorities

Book:Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at Matisse and Picasso and say, how can I paint like them? You have to be obsessed by something that can't come out in any other way, then the other things - the skill and technique - will follow.”

Way Looks Art Enough Artist Interest Skills Paint Technique Obsessed Matisse

Author:Anselm Kiefer

“Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.”

Wells Done Literature Novel Entertainment Technique Polished Well Done

Author:Mario

“Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.”

Littles Guy Player Fields Harder Green Very Good Technique Exceptional Best Players Defensive Backs

Author:Jerry Rice

“Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important”

Important Light Blood Events Happenings Photographer Technique Mood

Author:Andre Kertesz

“The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.”

“Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no gift for it, and that he is doing it all wrong and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve. But use the opposite technique, be liberal with encouragement; make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it - and he will practice until the dawn comes in at the window in order to excel.”

Knows Trying Children Persons Use Seems Certain Order Easy Ability Practice Stupid Husband Window Opposites Encouragement Technique Destroyed Dumb Dawn Employee Have Faith Incentives Flair

Author:Dale Carnegie

“The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.”

Trying Real Hard Film Perfect Audience Modern Illusion Technique Contribution Being Real Popcorn

Book:Raymond Chandler Speaking

Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking

“Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.”

Years Sometimes Whole Vision Style Lifetime Technique Whole Life Painter Formulas Locks

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.”

Example Technique Acquire Prose Engineering Reverse Savoring Reverse Engineering

Book:The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

Source: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

“We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques.”

Has Beens Order Judging Mets Standards Court Congress Technique Wire Approving

Author:Robert Mueller

“I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot.”

Kids Fans Shots Blame Technique Acid Prozac

Author:Immortal Technique

“My revolution is born out of love for my people, not out of hatred for others.”

People Born Revolution Hatred Technique Immortal

Author:Immortal Technique

“Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, This is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, Cause almost everything that I was always ever told was a lie...”

Lasts Lying Causes Sky Praying Truth Is Mass Universal Technique Appeals Last Time Universal Truth

Author:Immortal Technique

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