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Tag Name "Definitions" (1072)

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Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to write a whole story, a whole book. A writer has to be able to look at that story and see whether or not a character works, whether or not a character needs further definition.
Stephen Coonts
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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled. Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
Aimee Mullins
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If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.
Flavor Flav
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Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.
Paulo Coelho
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But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.
Black Francis
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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
Robert Morgan
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The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.
Adam Carolla
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Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.
Pat Barker
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The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.
Eric Greitens
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My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion.
Tony Hawk
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The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws.
Sam Brownback
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A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.
Douglas Coupland
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Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.
T. S. Eliot
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Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest test. But when you are judging the quality of the material you must put it to the severest test.
B. R. Ambedkar
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Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.
Paula Fox
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The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.
David Hockney
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Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
Milan Kundera
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Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.
Alva Myrdal
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I believe the time will come when the whole definition of pop music will change. It will get to the point where a song will not be a good song until it has a high level of creativity in writing and performance. In other words, in order to be popular, songs will have to meet these high standards.
Nina Simone
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Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.
Richard Yates
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I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.
Karen Joy Fowler
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What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The general definition of being muscle-bound is that you have so many muscles that you can't move freely. I don't know of any bodybuilder in that category in fact, many of them are quite active in other sports.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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