Form Quotes
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Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.
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In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.
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When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
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If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
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To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad.
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All my song writing starts in same form, I have so many scraps of choruses and verses and voice recordings and actual recordings, which then often conceptualises as a rhythmic and melodic and a delivery thing.
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The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.
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Any form of art is a form of power.
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A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.
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Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was the supreme literary form: not just one among many, not a relic of the past, but the way we communicate to one another the subtlest truths about this business of living.
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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?
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For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.
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My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And Google Glass is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.
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Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.
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All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.
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There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.
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So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.
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I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.
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Ten things you should always do when you form a group 1. Work with your friends 2. Find like-minded people 3. Have ultimate self-belief 4. Write great songs 5. Get a great manager 6. Live in Manchester 7. Support each other through thick and thin 8. Realise no one person is bigger than the group (thanks to Gene Simmons for that one) 9. Watch where the money goes 10. Always get separate legal advice for everything before you sign; failing that, ask your mam and dad.
