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A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it. ↗

— Minor White

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I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be. ↗

— Michel Gondry

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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges. ↗

— John Corigliano

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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history. ↗

— Earl Browder

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God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had. ↗

— Michael Connelly

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