- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exacting Quotes
On holding yourself, and others, to a higher standard.
Being exacting shows up in strange places here, in self-judgment, in fictional characters held to impossible codes, and in music's tales of women exacting sweet revenge. This set of quotes looks at what it costs to demand so much.
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- Flaws
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- Nov 07, 2020
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020