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Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in.

~Darren Aronofsky

Topics: After Around Constructed Did Documentary Fit Fountain Go Less Make More Natural Project Right Searching Something Wanted Wrestler

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The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.

~David Eagleman

Topics: Am Based Change Constructed Difference Different Differently Doing Experiences Forward Gene How Imaging Pulling Reality Same Single Stimuli Tests Understand Very World I Am

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Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.

~David Grann

Topics: Carefully Constructed Culture Dead Death Living Process Rituals

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But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.

~David Hockney

Topics: About Always Colour Constructed Constructing Did How Makes Mean Pictures Place Think Thinking Use Using Well Would You

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You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy.

~David Lange

Topics: About Actually Carefully Constructed Did Except Explain Happened Life Political Political Life Rather Series Situations Some Talk Than Things Way Why You

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In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

~Dean Inge

Topics: Adopt Constructed Does Follow Learn Men More Much Must Philosophies Philosophy Poor Praising Science Scientific Teach Than Very Which

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When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn't go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of like, family group around Christmas.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Anymore Around Came Christmas Constructed Family First Go Go Home Group Hard Holidays Home Kind Like My Own Out Own Point Reached Were Where

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The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

~Edmund White

Topics: Arbitrary Bed Beds Been Constructed Fell Fifties Great Had Heated How Just Normality Onto Our Rose Seeming Sixties Triumph Twin Up Water

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As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

~Edward Sapir

Topics: Better Beyond Case Confines Constructed Content Fact Language Loses Matter Much National National Language Original Own Quickly Richness Spreads Than Very Which

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The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.

~Edward Sapir

Topics: Connotation Constructed Course Criticism Idea Inferiority Language National Richness Score Supposed

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