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It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.


Conrad Hall


#articulate #attempting #because #cinema #describe

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.


Albert Bushnell Hart


#been #colonial #cut #had #importation

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.


Albert Bushnell Hart


#caused #effort #england #growth #immense

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.


Vaclav Havel


#attempt #deceptive #devote #literature #most

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.


Davey Havok


#attempt #commercial #commercial success #enjoy #far

It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.


John Hawkes


#attempt #bores #civilisation #crowning #done

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.


Frank Herbert


#cannot #darkness #falsehood #knowing #light

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.


Christopher Hitchens


#attempt #believing #care #cosmology #cultural

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.


Douglas Horton


#attempting #bang #bangs #death #door

The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the past three years, and the consensus outlook appears no better for the year ahead.


Glenn Hubbard


#ahead #appears #attempted #average #better






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