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I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text. — Peter Greenaway
Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly… — Brit Marling
Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity of love, as… — Russell Brand
Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread… — Sandra Cisneros
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. — Elaine Dundy
This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text… — Douglas McIlroy
Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. — Douglas McIlroy
The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
I was invited by a publisher to write the text for Tantra.[1] Having done some research, what fascinated me was the evidence that many 'tantric'… — Indra Sinha
The Kama Sutra is neither exclusively a sex manual nor, as also commonly used art, a sacred or religious work. It is certainly not a… — Indra Sinha
Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies… — Jeanette
There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered… — Pat Buchanan
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power. — Thomas Jefferson
You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind. — Elie Wiesel
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. — Walter Benjamin
If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive, call them. Don't text, don't email. Call them. Listen to them for as long… — J.K. Simmons
But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis...… — James Clerk Maxwell
So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's a bedtime. Because… — Marina Keegan
Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what… — David Crystal

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