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I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. ↗

— David Mamet

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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. ↗

— Yann Martel

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Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent! ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

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It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

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In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers. ↗

— Jean Paul

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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 think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

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