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  • I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.

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  • Benjamin E. Mays Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • James Weldon Johnson It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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  • W. H. Auden A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bill Veeck Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Alexander Smith If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Northrop Frye In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • John Ruskin The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Dave Barry There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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