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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

~Charlotte Bronte

Topics: Cannot Constructed Does Event Expectation Life Match Will

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When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.

~Chris Ofili

Topics: Art Art School Better Constructed Finished Individual Layers Lots Many Often Only Other Others Painters Painting Paintings Realise School Similarly Some Something Than Think Underneath Were Worked Would You I Think 1980S

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I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

~Christian Dior

Topics: Buildings Considered Constructed Craftsman Curves Dresses Female Form Good Like Molded Shape Wanted

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My father worked in a scientific lab where he designed and built glass instruments. He was regarded as brilliant at his job and once constructed a human brain in glass just to show off his skills.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Brain Brilliant Built Constructed Designed Father Glass He His Human Human Brain Instruments Job Just Lab Off Once Regarded Scientific Show Show Off Skills Where Worked

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When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I read on Goth blog sites.

~Christopher Moore

Topics: Blog Book Constructed Diction Girl Goth Narrator Normal Perky Read Sites Suck Writing You

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Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Because Biographies Come Constructed Dialogue Difficult Far Films Invent Lives Make More Nature Novels Plot Plots Subjects Than Them Whereas Written

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Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

~Clifford Geertz

Topics: Constructed Historically Meaning Socially

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There's a glee in building a world that is constructed on corporate synergy and all the luxuries of our modern life, and then just tearing it apart. I enjoy that!

~Colin Trevorrow

Topics: Apart Building Constructed Corporate Enjoy Glee Just Life Luxuries Modern Modern Life Our Synergy Tearing Then World

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To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

~Cordell Hull

Topics: Back Constructed Determination Effective However Machinery Make Piece Social Sure Unless Well Will Work

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My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

~Dan Flavin

Topics: Barren Blessed Bring Cathedrals Celebrating Constructed Elaborate Icons Light Limited Raise Rooms Savior Up

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