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“Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.”
Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.95, Penguin
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“There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but thats much more to do with the staging and the cutting and the mood of the thing as a sequence, the way everything comes together.”
Source : "Famed Cinematographer Roger Deakins Talks Coens, Storytelling, ‘Prisoners’". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. January 13, 2014.
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“If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.”
Source : "The trouble with atheists: a defence of faith" by Francis Spufford, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.
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“I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.”
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“Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House with a lot of unnecessary business. The absence of disapproval may be accepted as sanction, and publicity and opportunity for discussion and criticism are the really material and valuable elements which henceforth will be introduced.”
Source : Statement, April 1, 1924.
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“On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.”
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“I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.”
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“The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.”