Quotes with construct

  • The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.

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  • Simone Weil Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Bethany McLean Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Bob Rae Constitutions do not emerge perfectly formed from the brain of the philosopher king, as Mr. Trudeau himself discovered in 1980 and 1981. They are always messy processes that are easier to knock down or tear apart than they are to construct.
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    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Paul J. Meyer Construct your Determination with Sustained Effort, Controlled Attention, and Concentrated Energy. opportunities never come to those who wait... they are captured by those who dare to attack.
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Rollo May Depression is the inability to construct a future.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Caitlin Flanagan Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Philip Roth It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Andrea Dworkin The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Bruce Feirstein The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Alfred P. Sloan The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Ben Wheatley The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Toni Morrison There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Norman Douglas You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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