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I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. ↗

— Richard Powers

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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#bump #describes #essential #human #investigates

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

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I do regret, as I described in my book, the time that I shaved off half of my eyebrows thinking that I could draw them in better - and they would grow back anyway. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

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The audience includes subscribers, so you have to be careful. ↗

— Michael Ritchie

#be careful #careful #includes #subscribers #you

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective. ↗

— Tim Robbins

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The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in. ↗

— Eric Roberts

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I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

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Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic. ↗

— Joe Rogan

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It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it. ↗

— John Byrne

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