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Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.

~Denis Leary

Topics: Acting Actor Chewing Dialogue Equivalent Great Just Off Other Rush Scenery Showing Sometimes Sugar Theatrical Up

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Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: About Abstract Art Complex Complicated Composition Contemporary Equivalent Know Little May Music Musical Painting Some Which

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With the enhancements to the security of the passport document itself that biometric technology will bring, it is time to make equivalent enhancements to the process of establishing identity before issuing passports.

~Des Browne

Topics: Before Bring Document Equivalent Establishing Identity Itself Make Passport Process Security Technology Time Will

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The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

~Dixie Lee Ray

Topics: Defects Economic Economic Growth Equivalent Government Growth Inflation Job Maximum Plus Pollution Products Reality Risk Runaway Zero

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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Book Different Different Way Equivalent Had Job Know Like Literary Mine Perhaps Provoke Questions Read Shower Slightly Someone Something Start Them Think Thinking Way Would Writer Writers I Think

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If they're traveling at the speed of light, their month is perhaps the equivalent of twenty of our years. So they're just buzzing around having a good old time, continuously looking.

~Dwight Schultz

Topics: Around Continuously Equivalent Good Having Just Light Looking Month Old Our Perhaps Speed Time Traveling Twenty Years

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I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its on-screen equivalent, because the emotional arcs and changes that you can follow are just so much more like a novel, and so many amazing shows recently have done as much as film can do to show the interior world.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Amazing Because Changes Done Drama Emotional Equivalent Excited Feel Film Follow Found Influenced Interior Just Last Like Many More Much Novel On-Screen Really Recently Show Shows Strongly Tv Very World You I Feel

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Despite allegations by liberal advocacy groups that voter suppression tactics by the right hindered minority voting, blacks represented 13 percent of the electorate in 2012, a percentage about equivalent with 2008.

~Elizabeth Flock

Topics: About Advocacy Blacks Despite Electorate Equivalent Groups Liberal Minority Percent Percentage Right Suppression Tactics Voter Voting

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There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: Aware Door Equivalent Even Intellectual Living Next Next Door Remarks Some Stupid Them Vaguely

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I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.

~Elsa Maxwell

Topics: Anyone Dislike Else Equivalent Hate

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