Plato Quotes
Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.
Quotes to Explore
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
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In every movie I do have a dialogue.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
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I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.
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I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.
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My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
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I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.
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Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.
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There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that..." I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.
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What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.
