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I haven't touched a piece of meat since I read a graphic description of Chicago's slaughterhouses when I was 12.
What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.
I wouldn't say being in a film with The Rock was 'motivating.' 'Terrifying' would be a more accurate description.
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.
Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
'Founder' is a state of mind, not a job description, and if done right, even CEOs who join after day 1 can become founders.
What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.
Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory.
I like Tom Wolfe's description of the country: There's America. The coasts are like the parentheses. In between is the country.
I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.
My strength, by default, is my size over corners and my hands, which I know is in the job description, but that really matters.
I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.
The description of my character in the first few movies I did was always 'nerdy,' but I liked that; it was way more interesting.
The three books I've written in Florida about L.A. are my best takes on the physicality of the city, as far as description goes.
Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
To be painted a villain, you have to do something, I guess, evil or something heinous, and I don't know if I fit that description.
Once or twice I`ve been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I`ve ever seen.
I just wrote out a long description of my best dream and realised telling people your dreams just can't be allowed, it's too boring.
I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.
My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.
Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.
Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.
The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.
Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.
I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.
London, Ontario, sits halfway between Detroit and Buffalo, a description that applies as much to its soul as to its geographical coordinates.
A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.
Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
"You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield."
I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character using a script.
My strong suits, coming from poetry, will naturally be description, which I love doing. It comes very easily, and possibly structure, up to a point.
A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.
A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description.
Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.
I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.
Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.
I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.
In music you can find your own niche. You can do what you want to do. There is really no job description. You have to find your own way, and that's fun.
One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.