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The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.

~Ben Wheatley

Topics: Comedies Construct Critic Films Genre Go Horror Idea Just Make Me Nothing Romantic Romantic Comedies See Stories Try Where Whole Wrong

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Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.

~Bethany Mclean

Topics: Accounting Capital Construct Money Pile Sitting Somewhere

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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Better Constantly Construct Disappointed Easily Know Me People Seems Things Time Very Want Whether

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Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.

~Bill Toomey

Topics: Again Athens Begin Construct Faster Games Greeks Host Might Rumors Sites Switched Will

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I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

~Boyd Holbrook

Topics: Architect Buildings Construct Draw Houses My Own Own Used Wanted

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For me, religion is a political construct, and spirituality is a community construct, and there's a real difference.

~Brandon Victor Dixon

Topics: Community Construct Difference Me Political Real Religion Spirituality

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I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.

~Brenda Laurel

Topics: Actually Anything Been Being Blow Break Computers Construct Elaborate Extreme How Like Looking Me Mental Model Part Pay People Quite Software Something Something People Sort Trying Unable Understand Up Will Without Wonderful Working I Can

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The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.

~Bruce Feirstein

Topics: About Collaborative Construct Games Great Great Thing How Opens Other Stories Storytelling Thing Thinking Those Tremendously Up World You

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In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you can't construct this carefully planned out arc for your character. You often get a script and you're shooting it two days later, and you don't know what's going to happen next. It's one of the harder things that I've done.

~Caitlin Fitzgerald

Topics: Arc Carefully Character Construct Days Done End Get Going Happen Harder Know Later Next Often Out Planned Play Script Shooting Start Stops Television Things Two Where You Your

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Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.

~Caitlin Flanagan

Topics: Best Construct Deeply Escaping Girl Kind Own Pursuing Readers Reading Really Story Thoughts Way Within World Your Yourself

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