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- Nov 07, 2020
Conveying Quotes
Getting the message across is its own art.
Writers and speakers here argue that facts alone rarely land. One novelist admits fiction was never built for delivering information cleanly; it's built for Good stories that carry truth sideways.
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- Enrich
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- Nov 07, 2020
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's going on because as we're trying to weave, it's weaving us.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy), works of fantastika often preclude comedy, because humor gets in the way of messages of doom or struggle.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right. But fiction isn't good at conveying information: It's good at telling stories about people in interesting situations.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.
- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, when you train no-gi all the time, the no-gi style evolves quicker, twice as fast. Especially, the way we do it at 10th Planet, I am not just the one conveying the knowledge. All my students are involved.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to love Dr. Seuss to take on the responsibility of conveying his work in animation or any medium.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020