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- Nov 07, 2020
Analysing Quotes
On overthinking faces, causes, and one's own character.
These quotes apply 'analysing' at very different scales: avoiding war by carefully studying its possible causes, or a visual artist who instinctively analyses a stranger's face to work out how to recreate it. More than one speaker admits discomfort analysing themselves, a tension explored in Being quotes.
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am always analysing myself; I am always critical of myself and always trying to improve.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Baahubali' was a film that was never done before. Rajamouli sir was my biggest inspiration because he lives in the smallest house and drives the smallest cars, but he makes the biggest films ever. He taught me the art of analysing your own strengths, and I take inspiration from him.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm good at looking moody. I'm not much good at analysing myself, but I tend to fit the strange and tortured characters.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like talking about myself; I'm not good at analysing myself. I don't want to analyse myself.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an observer, I'm analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing... I am not very talented at talking about what I do as a writer.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, it is logical that by analysing a player, one thinks it is better to play him in one place or another, but then, if he is good, you can be more flexible.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it. I just try and enjoy a show and interest myself because if I don't do that then I won't interest anybody else.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020