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Yes, I am aware that I have become a caricature. I've thought about this. Conceptually, what I'd like to do is the equivalent of writing myself out of the script.
Phil Collins
Myself
Writing
Thought
Become
Caricature
Out
About
Like
Am
Equivalent
Yes
Script
Aware
It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions.
Piet Mondrian
Art
Balance
Reality
Become
Only
Through
Attained
True
Clearer
Equilibrium
Equivalent
Unequal
Established
Movement
Dynamic
Plastic
Expression
In Australia, I wrote lots of little plays and put them on, and then I worked on a few different TV shows, like the Australian equivalent of 'SNL.' I would write and perform all of my characters.
Rebel Wilson
Few
Characters
TV
Would
TV Shows
Write
Put
Perform
Like
Wrote
Equivalent
Lots
Australia
Australian
SNL
Different
Little
Them
Then
Worked
Shows
Plays
Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.
Richard Flanagan
Genius
Poet
Respects
Out
Admittedly
Masquerading
Sort
Equivalent
German
Turned
Who
European
Many
Many Respects
Maria
Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.
Rick Smolan
You
Drive
Those
System
Secure
Someone
Data
More
Could
Take
Thumb
Remotely
How
Equivalent
Stolen
Realize
Much
Filing
Now
Millions
The little town I was brought up in, I'd go to the film society to these very extreme sorts of films that you wouldn't normally see in the movie houses. But I never dreamed that I would get into the position to be shooting movies equivalent to the ones I loved as a kid.
Roger Deakins
You
Society
Films
Extreme
Kid
Would
Dreamed
See
Brought
Never
Town
Sort
Houses
Equivalent
Go
Up
Very
Normally
Get
Shooting
Movie
Loved
Little
Movies
Little Town
Film
Position
Kids in college often look for mentors and role models to model their careers after, and women don't have the equivalent of a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. I think it's a self-perpetuating loop.
Ruchi Sanghvi
Women
College
Think
Kids
Jobs
Mentors
Look
Steve
Steve Jobs
Loop
Equivalent
Model
Role
Role Models
Models
Often
After
Bill
Bill Gates
Gates
Careers
I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.
Rufus Wainwright
Must
Hyper
Equivalent
Sealed
Tomb
Sleep
Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
S. Jay Olshansky
You
Better
Car
Filter
Run
Exercise
Makes
Equivalent
Lot
Oil
Roughly
My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.
Samantha Bee
Home
Crazy
People
Fear
Toronto
Stay
Inside
New
Hours
Understand
Equivalent
Go
Want
New Yorkers
Apartment
Room
Now
Why
Streets
Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, but also for the world. Tap dancing is like language; it's like air: it's like everything else that we need in order to survive. I'm blessed and honored to be knowledgeable of the art form and to be a part of the art form.
Savion Glover
Music
Art
World
Language
Blessed
Community
Else
Air
Everything
Dancing
Honored
Everything Else
Only
Part
Like
Also
Knowledgeable
Equivalent
Tap
Art Form
Survive
American
African
Order
African-American
Form
To Survive
Need
I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved to Winnetka, Illinois, an upper class, WASPy suburb where Jews - as well as Blacks and Catholics - were unwelcome on many blocks. I suffered the spiritual equivalent of whiplash.
Scott Turow
Spiritual
Class
Parents
Jews
Side
Neighborhood
Blacks
Park
Well
Catholics
Unwelcome
Equivalent
Were
Blocks
West
Chicago
Up
Rogers
North
Upper
Upper-Class
Moved
Where
Grew
Suburb
Illinois
Many
Suffered
Jewish
The longtime standard for American TV was 525 lines from top to bottom of the image. As a practical matter, that was roughly equivalent to 350 thousand pixels - pretty crude, given that photos made with your iPhone boast five million pixels.
Seth Shostak
Matter
Made
Top
TV
Thousand
Photos
Pretty
Given
Crude
Bottom
Longtime
Practical
Equivalent
iPhone
Lines
Five
American
Boast
Your
Standard
Roughly
Million
Image
You can look for something that's equivalent to Slipknot, and you're going to fail miserably.
Shawn Crahan
You
Something
Fail
Look
Equivalent
Going
America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other words, you know? It's, again, the only great country in the world that it is formed out of words.
Simon Schama
God
Great
You
Words
World
Country
Other
Philosophical
Great Country
Out
Only
Idea
Know
Ideological
Because
Equivalent
Truly
America
In Other Words
Formed
Again
Special
Founded
Entrepreneurial education in grades K-12, if it exists at all, still focuses on teaching potential entrepreneurs small business entrepreneurship - the equivalent of 'how to run a lemonade stand.'
Steve Blank
Education
Business
Run
Small
Potential
Small Business
Entrepreneurial
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
How
Still
Equivalent
Exists
Grades
Lemonade
Stand
Teaching
My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.
Steve Buscemi
Me
Dig
Cinematic
Favorite
Mail
Like
Know
Equivalent
Sounds
Review
Junk
Means
Essentially, Robin Hood put a smackdown on the medieval equivalent of the IRS.
Steven Crowder
Hood
Put
Robin
Robin Hood
Equivalent
Essentially
IRS
Medieval
I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!
Susan Orlean
Me
Garden
Space
Plants
Spring
Sight
Seem
Gives
Writers
Missed
Calling
Empty
None
Editor
Block
Equivalent
Beds
Quite
Them
Might
Much
Choose
Many
Among
Right
I believe deeply that jazz is still a very vital music that has much to say, not just to eggheads, or whatever the musical equivalent of an egghead is, but to ordinary people.
Terry Teachout
Music
People
Whatever
Jazz
Believe
Musical
Say
Vital
Still
Equivalent
Very
Just
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Much
Deeply
I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.'
Terry Zwigoff
Work
Day
Better
Remember
Father
Think
Thinking
Else
Worst
All Day
Neighborhoods
Visiting
Jobs
Folding
Struggling
Had
He
Lights
Schools
Him
Got
Equivalent
Up
Shirts
Get
Anything
Anything Else
Us
Grow
Grow Up
Kept
America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.
Todd Akin
Government
Business
Socialism
Cancer
Three
Stage
No Business
Kinds
Federal
Federal Government
Stuff
Because
Got
Equivalent
America
The revolution breaks out; they form this group of swordsmen called the Black Legion. Alex Dumas is there at every moment, protecting the revolution and protecting France, and he rises to the equivalent of a four-star general.
Tom Reiss
Black
Revolution
Group
Every
France
Out
Rises
General
He
Protecting
Equivalent
Legion
Form
Breaks
Moment
Alex
I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.
Tucker Max
Think
Out
Guys
Written
Read
Equivalent
Lot
Chick
Being
Lit
Want
Them
Much
Really
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
Wallace Stevens
Thinking
Observation
Equivalent
Accuracy
I think the experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people.
Wes Craven
Experience
People
Old
Power
Think
Telling
Seeing
Part
Still
Equivalent
Lot
Campfire
Bunch
Going
Movie
Story
Theater
Film
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