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I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it.

~Celeste Ng

Topics: Come Descriptions Good Hard Me Metaphors Naturally Plot Really Think Work I Think

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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

~Charles De Secondat

Topics: Any Descriptions Go Make Paradise Person Read Sensible Stop Wanting Would

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By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Almost Almost All Big Body Cannot Complicated Data Definition Descriptions Diseases Healthcare Occur Our Systems Yield

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I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action.

~Clive Cussler

Topics: Action Descriptions Dialogue Like Lots Short Snappy

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Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Alternative Associations Descriptions Different Emotions Evoke Reality Same

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I like a novel to have a certain amount of dead time and filler - unremarkable scenery, descriptions of getting from point A to point B, dialogue in which not much is said - in between the parts that are electric. With a long work that you don't read in one sitting, I think that makes for the best reading experience.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Amount Best Between Certain Dead Descriptions Dialogue Electric Experience Getting Like Long Makes Much Novel Parts Point Read Reading Said Scenery Sitting Think Time Which Work You I Think

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By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.

~Estelle Morris

Topics: Ability Aims Clear Creating Department Descriptions Expected Help Improve Job Making People Qualifications Recruit Right Right People Schools Should Useful

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With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?

~F. Murray Abraham

Topics: Ask Beautiful Could Descriptions Ever Film Got Hear Literature More Most Most Beautiful Music Peter Smith Words Written You

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For delightfully quirky descriptions of bizarre neurological syndromes that teach us a lot about how the brain works, there is no match for Oliver Sacks.

~Francis Collins

Topics: About Bizarre Brain Descriptions How Lot Match Neurological Oliver Quirky Teach Us Works

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I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the iPad the other day and it was so interesting to see his descriptions of clothes and places.

~Frank Lampard

Topics: About Books Clothes Day Descriptions Forgotten Had His Interesting Ipad Lot Loved Other Places Read Reading See Young

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