#explaining

When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be. ↗

— George Saunders

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People have to find ways of explaining the work. ↗

— Andres Serrano

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We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions. ↗

— Robert Teeter

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I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife. ↗

— Philip Larkin

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In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about. ↗

— Adele

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If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. ↗

— Alan Perlis

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I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does. ↗

— David Bowie

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I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

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I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different. ↗

— Martin Gore

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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. ↗

— Anita Diament

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