Form Quotes
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People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel
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Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am going to write a novel."
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.
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Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
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In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.
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A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.
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A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.
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Laughter is grace in its gaseous form.
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It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.
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It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
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I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of environmental thing.
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Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.
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We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.
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In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. Bernard Leach did a little work in the studio, which was press-molded forms, plastic clay pressed into plaster forms to make small rectangular boxes and some vase forms, which he liked to make. These were molds which had been made to an original that he had modeled in solid clay, and during our work there, sometimes I would be pressing these forms as a means of production.
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In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.
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It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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Own your beauty whatever shape or form it comes in.
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I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
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Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get.
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We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.
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One cannot conquer the evil in himself by resisting it ... but by transmuting its energies into other forms. The energy that expresses itself in the form of evil is the same energy which expresses itself in the form of good; and thus the one may be transmuted into the other.
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I long for the imperishable quiet at the heart of form.
