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Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.


Atom Egoyan


#context #dealing #economical #family #i

In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.


Anthony Kennedy


#context #fair #judicial #mean #means

Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.


Criss Jami


#amount #classification #classify #context #creativity

When a court officer suggested quarantine for Nerissa, she grabbed the man's pen and jammed it into the back of his hand, screaming that he was a Crimson Guard witch come to remove her memories and replace them with bird-song. They decided to skip quarantine after that.


Caitlin Kittredge


#lovely-way-with-words #mental-image #funny

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.


Umberto Eco


#escape #escapism #fiction #interpretation #narrative

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.


Carl Bernstein


#behind #big #big story #business #context

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.


Andy Goldsworthy


#around #context #deliberately #i #i am

In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime.


Recep Tayyip Erdogan


#consensus #context #democratization #effective #embody

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.


Jonathan Coe


#accidental #always #attempting #choices #context

Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.


Carly Fiorina


#account #again #certainly #context #done






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