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I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.

~David Lowery

Topics: Charming Degree Funny Gravity Love Naive Some Something Sweet Taking Understood I Love

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Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

~David Mamet

Topics: About Admire Asked Degree Down English Got Here How Hundred Hundred Years Last List Listen Make Many Over Sat See Somebody Them Thing Writers Years You

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Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Adaptation Any Believe Degree Desirable Faithful Inevitable Language May New Only Such A Thing Thing Translation I Believe

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I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.

~David Morrell

Topics: Action Arms Bell Come Degree Farewell Feel Graduate Had Hemingway Interest Many Me Mind Noted Occurred Penn Penn State Philip Scenes Scholar State Studied Thrillers War Whom Wrote Young

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I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I was obsessed with conducting, and I was conducting as much as I could, and I was studying as much as I could. I went to USC; I got an undergrad degree in violin and a master's degree in conducting.

~David Newman

Topics: Conducting Could Degree Ever Got Had Intention Interest Master Much Music No Interest Obsessed Professional Studying Violin Violinist Writing

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The human brain is at particularly high risk for damage by free radicals because of its high degree of metabolism compared to other tissues, while lacking the levels of antioxidant protection found elsewhere in the body.

~David Perlmutter

Topics: Because Body Brain Compared Damage Degree Elsewhere Found Free High Human Human Brain Lacking Levels Metabolism Other Particularly Protection Radicals Risk While

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A certain degree of intellectual humility is a good thing.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Certain Certain Degree Degree Good Good Thing Humility Intellectual Thing A Good Thing

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Iran has had a very harmful effect in a variety of ways in the region... fomenting unrest to a degree in Saudi Arabia, undoubtedly in Bahrain, and definitely in Yemen with Hamas, with Lebanese Hezbollah among other activities in locations.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Activities Among Arabia Bahrain Definitely Degree Effect Had Hamas Harmful Iran Lebanese Locations Other Region Saudi Saudi Arabia Undoubtedly Unrest Variety Very Ways

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No greater privilege than I had as a soldier and then as a spymaster and to some degree now in the business world.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Business Business World Degree Greater Had Now Privilege Soldier Some Than Then World

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If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.

~David Ricardo

Topics: Because Classes Commercial Commodities Degree Demand Diminished Fall Far Greater Home Increased Landlords Opulence Part Rent Should Will

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