- Grey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distance Quotes
How distance changes what we see and feel.
Several of these quotes treat distance as a matter of perspective - a fairy-land view of literature that loses its charm on closer approach, and a photographer describing every horizon as revealing another beyond it. See Far quotes for a related angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Destination
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do the majority of what most athletes do. For example, as a badminton player, you have to be able to run a long distance and sprint. We do weights three times a week.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reflecting on the past, where the film industry became united with 'national interest' and 'national policy,' I tend to think that keeping a clear distance from government authority is the right thing to do.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Nobody Knows,' I consciously set out to make a fiction film, which is a different approach from 'Distance,' but I still applied a lot of the things I learned from making 'Distance': for example, how to use the camera in relation to the children and how to create the right atmosphere on set.
- Assessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My company is called East-West Theatre precisely because Sarajevo is this city on the border between East and West, the place where the Great Mosque and the Catholic Cathedral and the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral stand almost within touching distance of each other.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020