#conceived

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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'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience. ↗

— Michael Haneke

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#i #i think #make #most #notions

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#business #comic #comic books #draw #embarrassing

We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#ask #change #conceived #destiny #fear

I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#also #any #bare #being #cannot

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. ↗

— John Major

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