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to the point
«Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.»
Author: Jonathan Miller
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Doctors
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directing, manifold, reconstruct, reconstructing, to the point
«After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and turn on our burglar alarms - while the jungle natives sleep in open-door huts»
Author: Morris Mandel
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Progress
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advanced, alarms, bolt, burglar, Doors And Windows, huts, jungle, Natives, open door, sleep in, The Jungle, The Turning Point, to the point, turning point, turn on
«He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.»
Author: Theodor Reik
(Author, Psychoanalyst)
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analytic, Freud, fulfill, governing, healing, to the point, treatment
«Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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abstraction, aggravation, aggravations, alternative, artifice, artifices, bustle, bustles, bustling, cities, concentration, congestion, deliberate, ecstasy, entertainment, holidays, intensification, levels, level best, look to, monotony, nearer, overcoming, plunge, pollution, Popular entertainment, pressure, sense an, stress, to the point
«Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
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director, directors, extremely, fate, mysterious, opponent, point, Point of, soundlessness, subtle, subtler, subtlest, thereby, The Director, the point, to the point
«Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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affect, receiver, receivers, shock, to the point
«An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write ''metropolis'' for seven cents, because I can get the same money for ''city'.' I never write ''policeman',' because I can get the same price for ''cop'.'... I never write ''valetudinarian'' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Because I Can, cents, dug, fifteen, four letter word, metropolis, policeman, shaved, the metropolis, to the point, valetudinarian
«A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, doubtful, Eccentricities, eccentricity, Point of, sanity, the point, tolerates, tolerating, to the point
«Have common sense and stick to the point.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
common sense, stick, stick to, the point, to the point