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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. ↗

— Mos Def

#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off - and punched back in at the same time. I don't know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#back #been #before #changed #done

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#every #every man #eyes #his #innocent

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#difficult #easy #how #know #painting

If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#fish #jump #out #school #want

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#does #knowledge #our #perception #sufficient

We're resolving our differences and we're looking forward to putting out a record next year. ↗

— Brad Delson

#forward #looking #looking forward #next #next year

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#affliction #anger #bring #change #could

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do. ↗

— Jonathan Demme

#about #amazing #amazing thing #care #chance

And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used. ↗

— Ted Demme

#camera #colors #favorite #late #lit