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Convey Quotes

We’ve collected the best Convey Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Ruth St. Denis, David Farr, Bruce Willis, Fidel Castro, Mini Grey. Use them as an inspiration.

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Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.
Ruth St. Denis
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To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.
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I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There’s a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.
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To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.
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Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that you’d need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film – and you can make anything you want happen, however impossible!
Mini Grey
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‘Fall Of A City’ aims to convey, in all its emotional richness, the effects of war and the toll taken on city and family by the horrors of siege.
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A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
Mo Yan
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Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that’s what I aim to do in books.
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Art is not journalism. In art, you don’t make it to convey a message.
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My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting… but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
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Memory is not particularly linear – it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.
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If we are not careful, we will convey the message that investigators have to be perfect. Not true!
Richard G. Scott
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I’m not interested in clothes that just convey a certain look or fashion. Clothes for me have always been a form of self-expression.
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Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
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You need to understand the meaning of the dialogue to be able to convey it right. You need to know it to understand the nuances of the scene.
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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
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Your job as a trial attorney is to try to convey to the jury the essence of the people you represent.
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I always tend to think, even in residential projects, about what a space is being asked to do – where is it located, what are the circumstances, where can I attack the problem, so to speak. How can you create a narrative for people moving through it? How can you convey its character?
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Through Tamil movie ‘Kanchana’ I wanted to convey the pain and struggles of transgenders and the movie received lot of appreciation from transgender‘s community and the public.
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You’re putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements. It’s got to be aesthetically pleasing; it’s got to have subtext; it’s got to convey information.
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I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.
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Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
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I always knew I wanted to be on air and travel the world and tell people’s stories. I wanted to convey something from other cultures to the U.S. – and vice versa.
Clarissa Ward
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As an artist who performs on the stage, I try to express my feelings and convey my inner thoughts through the looks I give the audience. So, I tend to focus on making sure that my makeup highlights my eyes properly.
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Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn’t been written about much.
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You’d expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use language to convey real-world information, we’d be obsessed with knowing the way things are, and we would entirely reject stories that aren’t true. They’re useless. But that’s not the way we work.
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Anywhere in the world I have travelled to, people would tell me ‘Yeh Vaada Raha’ is one of their favourite songs. People would even convey the same on Insta and Twitter.
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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what’s at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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I’ve always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the world more vividly and to greater effect than ordinary philosophical prose can because they don’t just deal in ideas but show the emotional reality of them.
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‘Short Term 12’ was such a marathon. It’s like trying to convey the same emotional depth as ‘The Gambler‘ but with less time and a fingernail’s worth of the budget.
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‘LOL’ is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don’t have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would.
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I can recognize a good actor. I can recognize someone that can convey emotion and that has the essence and not get lost in the minutia of, ‘Well, that person‘s got red hair, and so does the other.’ Some of the decisions in casting that seem so important at the time, until you get on set and you’re starting to shoot.
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I don’t think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can’t convey the right emotion, fuel your imagination or allow you to visualise every line the way books do.
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I enjoy collaborating with creative people and trying to get the best image possible to convey a feeling or story. Plus, I get flown all over the world to exotic places. How can you lose interest in that? It’s a great lifestyle. I can take vacations whenever I want, and no two shoots are ever the same.
Alyssa Sutherland
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Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images to look back at.
George Kotsiopoulos
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I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
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When it came to eliciting a reaction from an audience, especially at the time, I think Ric Flair is the guy who is constantly up there. Especially when you talk about speaking with passion and being able to convey a ton of emotion with his words and his body language.
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The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it’s about.
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I try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music.
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I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.
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It’s interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you’d think that you’d be able to convey more through dialogue.
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Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
Oscar Hijuelos
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I’m trying to convey to my audience that you really can’t judge a book by its cover, and there’s more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.
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I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera’s my worst enemy and my best friend. It’s the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, ‘You come alive as soon as the camera’s on!’
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Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer‘s head. In fiction, you just hope you’re precise enough to convey the intended effect.
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When you start a conversation about something that is under-discussed and you use art to convey it, I think that is incredibly powerful but is always going to create waves.
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
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The visual aspect of a dish is so important; the shapes and colors and overall design have to strike the right mood and convey the right idea.
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The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.
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As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we’re in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that’s what my music tries to convey to all the listeners – try to cultivate it every day.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there’s a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that’s the way I’d like to convey them myself.
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Novels attempt to render human experience; that’s really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
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We’ve always tried to convey these strong messages of strength and power and doing good in the world and, at the same time, to not be afraid to look at the difficulties that we experience.
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I was 18 when I was presented with the Arjuna Award. To say it feels really good would be an understatement. But I don’t know how else to convey the feeling. I am grateful for having received this prestigious award at such a young age.
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I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It’s closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn’t need a caption; it should already convey an idea.
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It’s really the tone that people use to convey things sometimes that can either become a compliment or an insult. It’s not always what you are saying, it’s about how you say it.
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The key to having something beautiful is being able to convey a normal human emotion but say it in a way that’s never been said.
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Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language – how to convey, to say nothing of converge – but an unhousedness of place.
Joy Williams
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When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.
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If you have to write a fictional adventure to convey a philosophy of evil, the best person is the destroyer of evil himself, Lord Shiva.
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Trump was able to convey – oddly enough a message from a billionaire who lives in Manhattan – a genuine concern for people who felt kind of left off, who felt offended by all the political correctness they see around them.
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If you wrote a crummy line or maybe didn’t sing to the best of your ability, there’s layers of 10 different instruments all working to convey something. In writing prose for the memoir, if it’s not working, it’s just not working. It’s harder to figure out how to fix it.
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An actor can never voice his opinion through films. All an actor does is convey what the director and writer want to say. You are a mouthpiece of their ideas. Your ideas reflect only in your choice of movies.
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I don’t begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don’t mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.
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You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask.
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When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
Edwin Booth
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No matter what as an artist that’s always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you’re singing about, you want to be able to convey that – and not make them feel – you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
Naima Adedapo
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The thing that makes me want to write a piece of music is having something to talk about, you know? Something I want to get across. Because I’m a composer, music is my first language, and that’s what I reach for when I want to convey something.
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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it’s different in Ireland. With most conversational exchanges you get an ‘added extra‘ like the free little biscuit you sometimes get with a cappuccino in a fancy coffee place.
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With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivityvoiceover, the camera’s point of view, good acting – but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.
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If you watch the movie ‘Ghost‘ with Patrick Swayze, you see an accurate portrayal of what I believe. Spirits are stuck here. They want to convey a message to the living, but they can’t – they are on a different frequency. But when they are heard, they are helping both us and themselves.
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Defining, embedding, and living core beliefs set the stage for executives and employees to connect. Through actions that consistently convey who we are and how we act, executives can inspire employees to believe in the organization‘s values and buy in to its brand.
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I genuinely only want to work with people that I agree with on certain things. There were many sponsors I didn’t want to work with because I didn’t agree with their messages that they wanted to use me to convey.
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With voice over work, you need to convey as much emotion as you can without making any physical movements, so it’s hard. You’ve got to visualize everything.
Jake T. Austin
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My mother was related to four of Jamaica‘s oldest families, and to say merely that she was out of the top drawer would not convey the quality of her breeding.
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I love street and I love ballet and I love to convey what I can.
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I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.
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I feel the world is over-saturated with products, and it isn’t about what you’re wearing as much as it is about what message you are trying to convey.
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We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
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For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that I had to convey their dignity – the way they dealt with adversity and poverty – and their good humor.
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In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating – a warm smile, for example – and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.
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Charlotte‘s Web,’ which I read sitting on my mother’s lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.
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Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.
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In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it’s noble toil and that it is hard.
Rocco DiSpirito
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Many countries do not allow women to convey their nationality to their children – if they are single mothers, the children become stateless.
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I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, it’s advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.
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I want people to see the fact that we’ve lost millions of manufacturing jobs to outsourcing and globalization. Sometimes images can convey that better.
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To me, words convey feelings, and feelings are just vibrations that we feel, so words are never as authentic as what feelings are and what intentions are.
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Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth.
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My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.
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I’ve always loved those portraits that Alfred Stieglitz did of Georgia O’Keeffe over several years, which really convey the idea that there’s not one image that can capture a woman, because we’re changing all the time.
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What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.
George Martin
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Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
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In their zeal to show compassion, liberal community activists are quick to offer government handouts and, in the process, convey the message that people are incapable of making it on their own.
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Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.
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Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art.
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Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it.
Graham Hawkes
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If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.
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Writing is a hard gig, and it’s hard to convey a lot. That’s why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.
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It is difficult to convey the excitement I first felt when it was revealed that His Holiness Pope Francis was invited to Washington D.C. to address the world from the floor of the House of Representatives.
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For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life’s experience in some semblance of its complexity – for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable.
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How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?
Henry Martyn
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Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I’ve been surprised at how much I’ve been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that’s true.
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I’ve been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.
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I’m thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.
John Eaton
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Coming from a single parent household, I witnessed firsthand the strength and courage of the single mother. I always had my father in my life but my household was run by my mother and my grandmother. As a result, I have always had the utmost respect for women and have chosen to strongly convey that in my music.
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There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
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My dad has a certain spirit, a twinkle in his eye, someone who can set a certain standard for players but also convey it with humor. What I learned from him is that coaching is, more than anything, about connecting with people.
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I’m not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that’s fine.
Neil Cavuto
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I think people often tend to listen to music with their eyes and not their ears, and I just wanted my work to shine, and to be able to convey my message without imagery taking away from that.
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The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope that I try to convey a little bit of that to the reader.
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I’m very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
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You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
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Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else’s head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
Arthur Phillips
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The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion.
Ednita Nazario
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I think there’s a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.
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When I was younger I didn’t want to hang around with anyone. But now I feel so comfortable. I convey my thoughts, my emotions, I can communicate better, I have a better understanding of the world. Now I have a sense of purpose. It makes me think a lot more about things.
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Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
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Cinema is not just a medium of entertainment. Yes, it should entertain, but cinema is made to convey a message, to say something.
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As Americans, we should all convey our thanks to the brave men and women who have selflessly and courageously served our nation.
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Suspensions convey the critical message to students and parents that certain behavior is inconsistent with being a member of the school community. Pretend suspensions, in which a student is allowed to remain in the school community, do not convey that message.
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I know that there are other sides to life. All the more reason why I now try to convey to the people out there how important it is to feel a sense of joy.
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For ‘Fright Night,’ we really want to convey the fun attitude of the movie and show the intensity of Colin Farrell as a predator. He’s not a brooding vampire – he’s dark and dangerous.
Stacey Snider
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When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that’s what you’re going to do.
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If I am doing a good show and I am satisfied with it, and can convey a message or bring a change in the thought process of the society, my purpose is served.
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The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.
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I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.
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Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity – which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.
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People who know my track record know when I’ve got a vision in mind, I’ll see it through. But sometimes it’s hard to convey what you’re trying to achieve.
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You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that’s why that old music feels so good to me.
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It’s technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what’s really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.
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His belief in the power of music to convey ideas – not just entertain – has filtered down to musicians in every field, from alt-rock to hip-hop, from Bruce Springsteen and U2 to Arcade Fire and Kanye West. Popular music is different because of Johnny Cash.
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In the end, a new Americanization movement can’t just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.
139
I think everybody‘s got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.
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The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
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I don’t need dialogue to convey emotion or thoughts to my audience.
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Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.
Charles Sturt
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It’s a wonderful acting challenge to tell a story and convey emotion with only your voice.
Michael T. Weiss
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The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.
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The key thing if you’re a writer is to visualize the scene and convey it to the penciller and turn the penciller loose.
146
We were mainly concerned about nudity – how much could be shown in 1959 and how much would convey, without being gratuitous, the terror of being attacked naked and wet.
Joseph Stefano
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It earns you a lot of snark if you’re able to convey vulnerability.
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Spoken language’s elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
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Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power… but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding… The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.
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In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.