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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. ↗

— Pete Townshend

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I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. ↗

— George Crumb

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Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

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George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

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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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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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