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I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Big Big Problem Description Education Giving Good Intellect Now Palin People Pretty Pretty Good Problem Right Sarah Sarah Palin Who

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And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.

~Adriana Trigiani

Topics: Applied Away Bottom Clear Cobweb Craft Description Ethic Every Job Service Took World Writing You

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We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women.

~Adrienne Mayor

Topics: Archaeology Argue Description Doubt Fitting Gave Greek Greeks Imagination Just Know Long Lot Names Now Products Proven Really Scholars Still Storytelling Tales Thought Travelers Us Warrior Were Without Women

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I fell in love with Norman Mailer's 'Of a Fire on the Moon', a description of the 1969 moon landing and the society that had produced NASA - and was inspired by him to begin a kind of anthropology of modern life.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Anthropology Begin Description Fell Fire Had Him Inspired Kind Landing Life Love Modern Modern Life Moon Nasa Norman Produced Society

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In some respects, big ideas can be a bit too big for a short story - especially if you've only got a couple of thousand words to play with, and you need room for other stuff, like character, description.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Big Big Ideas Bit Character Couple Description Got Ideas Like Need Only Other Play Respects Room Short Short Story Some Story Stuff Thousand Thousand Words Too Words You

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Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

~Alexander Kluge

Topics: Between Concrete Description Details Dreamed Enables Extended Hear Incredibly Look Never People Really Requires Scene See Similar Something Subtle Telephone Telescope Television Things Unlikely Us You

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My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.

~Algernon Blackwood

Topics: Abnormal Alcohol Any Card Course Cue Description Even Foot Gone Had Held Inside Never Nor Only Race Seen Set Smoked Theatre Tobacco Touched

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'Lucky Us' ends with a description of a photograph of the novel's fictional family. I could never get enough of my own family photo albums.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Albums Could Description Ends Enough Family Fictional Get Lucky My Own Never Novel Own Photo Photograph Us

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When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.

~Amy Chua

Topics: Amazing Clear Come Defy Description Easy Fabulous Family Kids Law Law School Lenient Many Me Mom One Thing Others Parents Produce Professor School Situations Some Strict Students Teaching Them Thing Tiger Ways Yale Years

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Columnists must make sure that when they describe an event, they are being accurate in their description. When they quote someone, they are required to do so accurately. Errors that are made must be corrected openly and quickly.

~Andrew Rosenthal

Topics: Accurate Accurately Being Corrected Describe Description Errors Event Made Make Must Openly Quickly Quote Required Someone Sure

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