#technique

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. ↗

— Pablo Casals

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For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors. ↗

— David Cronenberg

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I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

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I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there. ↗

— Brian Eno

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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear. ↗

— Vera Wang

#aspects #been #choreography #could #designing

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#language #misleading #most #our #representational

If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers. ↗

— James Wolcott

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But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically. ↗

— Marvin Harris

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The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know? ↗

— Hal Sparks

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