#repetition

Filming is repetition and many takes. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#many #repetition #takes

I'm very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don't become too muscular. ↗

— Donna Dixon

#become #body #good #hard #how

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#amy #apart #choruses #favourite #find

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#dreams #expectancy #hope #idleness #life

[...]to be real--to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate. ↗

— Tom McCarthy

#reality #repetition #nature

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#avoid #however #i #normally #repetitions

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#craves #ear #eye #familiar #hand

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#ambience #atmosphere #bass #been #deals

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#calculated #defeat #every #glaring #hours

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#automatic #becomes #develops #enough #frequently