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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

~A. R. Ammons

Topics: Answer Ask Correction Disorder Expect Linguistic Music Poetry Question Vague Words

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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.

~A. R. Rahman

Topics: Any Biggest Biggest Challenge Boundaries Budget Challenge Composer Composers Copy Creative Dollars Existing Expect Freedom Get Hits Hollywood Less Like More Movie Possible Producers Put Scared Score Studio Successful Take Those Wallpaper Within

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I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Always Books Else Everybody Everybody Else Expect Interested More People Than

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I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: Commercial Easy Easy Thing Even Expect Thing Think Venus Write You

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We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

~Aaron Siskind

Topics: Been Beliefs Believe Conditioned Expect Learn Learned Look Must Our Photographers Relax See World

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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Change Come Each Expect Less Me More More And More Other Seems Should Think I Think

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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

~Aaron Swartz

Topics: Around Being Bright Down Expect Great Great Things Having Helps Lights Seriously Sit Some Technology Them Things World You

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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

~Abbas Kiarostami

Topics: Cinema Expect Given Information Lazy Life Make Marks Me People Punctuation Question Seats

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I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Become Cease Dissolved Divided Expect Fall House One Thing Other Thing Union Will

Keywords: Abandoned


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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

~Abu Bakr

Topics: Be Kind Blessings Expect God His Kind People You

Keywords: Abandoning


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