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All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.
When you make art, those things change shape into something else. It's transformation into a body of different visual elements.
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.
Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.
Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.
I think working with the primal elements of fire and earth appealed greatly to my father because of the almost magical results.
The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.
I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.
A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.
The essential and living elements in our architectural activities stem from what was implanted in us during Old Saturn evolution.
The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.
Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a thriving British colonial port.
Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.
We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.
In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.
I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.
It is the responsibility of music composers to add some classical music elements into their songs to make the music genre popular.
Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
Choosing to arm and train the Islamist opposition against dictator Moammar Gadhafi unleashed its most ruthless terrorist elements.
The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).
Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.
Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
I love Tim Minchin, Bill Bailey, and Hans Teeuwen, and I'm trying to synthesise elements of theatre into my show a little bit more.
The concept of 'Heavy Rain' is to offer real-life situations with real characters. There are no supernatural elements in the story.
When you're not in studios, you don't have any luxuries; you can't control the elements, so you have to put up with those extremes.
Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society.
Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.
I have always felt that the best gardens aspired to coppice and that the best woods have all the elements of the very best gardens.
There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic elements.
[Donald Trump] just would not be in his element and I think he would wobble off course and I think the country just can't have that.
I think the elements to shock the world is either the ability to wrestle and grind somebody out or the ability to knock someone out.
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.
The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.
There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.
One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.
God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?
What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.