#metaphors

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors. ↗

— Dar Williams

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It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke. ↗

— Conrad Hall

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Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters. ↗

— Eric Liu

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Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. ↗

— Paul de Man

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The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply. ↗

— Anne Rice

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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. ↗

— Florence King

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Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

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Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor. ↗

— Walter Hill

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