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I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside.
Jane Hirshfield
Love
Path
Understanding
Sense
Transformation
Inside
See
Poems
Poetry
Feel
Toward
New
Looked
Learn
Offer
Effort
Gestures
Specific
In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual.
John Berger
Dancers
Several
Individual
Almost
Steps
Heads
Alphabet
Geometric
Gestures
Often
Whereas
Formal
Bodies
Resemble
Letters
Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.
John Gerzema
Words
Longer
Beyond
Make
Go
Gestures
Persuasion
Businesses
Works
There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.
Joshua Bell
Nothing
Softer
Waving
Say
Seeing
More
Huge
Conductor
Than
Gestures
Hands
Frustrating
Play
My mom and I have the exact same mannerisms - the way we talk and the gestures that we made.
Kaia Gerber
Mom
Made
Way
Exact
Talk
Gestures
Same
Mannerisms
I don't make big grand gestures, generally.
Katherine Heigl
Big
Generally
Make
Gestures
Grand
When I first left Florida for Boston, I was so eager to shed my Floridian identity, perhaps some of my earlier surreal gestures felt hollow and unconvincing because they were not rising from the particular brand of the uncanny I knew best.
Laura van den Berg
Best
First
Some
Rising
Boston
Knew
Particular
Perhaps
Identity
Shed
Because
Felt
Were
Surreal
Left
Brand
Gestures
Hollow
Eager
Florida
Earlier
In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.
Laurie R. King
Few
Action
Down
Films
Setting
Complex
Plot
Plots
Silent
Facial
Points
Nail
Around
Built
Very
Gestures
Quite
Actor
Expressions
Specific
So much of what blacks and women contend with is centered in how we view, and how the world views, our bodies. Gestures, voices, affect.
Margo Jefferson
Women
World
Our
Blacks
Voices
Contend
How
Affect
Gestures
Centered
Much
Bodies
View
Views
I don't need to make political gestures or take steps to get re-elected.
Michel Temer
Political
Take
Steps
Re-Elected
Make
Gestures
Get
Need
I honestly can't think of many more truly romantic gestures than a really well-thought-through prenuptial agreement.
Naomi Alderman
Think
Honestly
More
Truly
Than
Gestures
Romantic
Really
Many
Agreement
We created the 'Like' feature in FriendFeed because I realized that people wanted an easy way to let others know that they saw what their friends posted and appreciated it. Putting in those simple little gestures is very powerful.
Paul Buchheit
People
Simple
Others
Saw
Way
Those
Easy
Posted
Easy Way
Feature
Putting
Powerful
Like
Know
Because
Friends
Very
Gestures
Wanted
Little
Realized
Created
Appreciated
I'm not saying that maybe there isn't a kid out there whose behavior hasn't been influenced by me in some way. I'm sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you'd asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I'd admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that'd be a yes, totally. Right down to their hand gestures.
Pete Doherty
Saying
Myself
Me
You
Musicians
People
Speak
Behavior
Down
Way
Kid
Out
Admired
Some
Totally
Only
Had
Footballers
Like
Sure
Afar
Affected
Been
Hand
Yes
Gestures
Maybe
Influenced
Asked
Whose
Ever
Right
For me, personally, life in South Africa had come to an end. I had been lucky in some of the whites I had met. Meeting them had made a straight 'all-blacks-are-good, all-whites-are-bad' attitude impossible. But I had reached a point where the gestures of even my friends among the whites were suspect, so I had to go or be forever lost.
Peter Abrahams
Life
Attitude
Me
Impossible
Made
Met
Lost
South Africa
Meeting
Some
Point
Had
Come
Reached
Go
Were
Been
South
End
Friends
Forever
Gestures
Suspect
Africa
Where
Straight
Them
Personally
Whites
Lucky
Even
Among
There are endless consumer applications, but what excites me is how this can help people. A man who cannot speak communicates with sign language, but the average person doesn't know that language. SixthSense, if equipped with speakers, can recognize the gestures and form the words - it will speak for him.
Pranav Mistry
Me
Man
People
Words
Speak
Language
Will
Sign
Recognize
Consumer
Excites
Know
Him
How
Equipped
Person
Gestures
Endless
Form
Cannot
Average
Average Person
Speakers
Help
Help People
Who
Applications
The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
Rachel Kushner
Death
Art
Time
Age
Generation
Language
Late
Seventies
States
Object
Objects
Factory
Disappeared
Weirdly
Pictures
Also
Advertising
Making
Were
Gestures
Did
Getting
Artists
Getting Started
Manufacturing
United
United States
Started
Bond, especially Connery's Bond, was an existential hired gun with an aristocrat's tastes - just right for a time when class was a matter of brand names and insouciant gestures.
Richard Corliss
Time
Class
Matter
Gun
Aristocrat
Names
Hired
Existential
Brand
Gestures
Tastes
Just
Connery
Right
Bond
'S21' was a film about corporeal memory and how the same gestures repeated many times years earlier can be reawakened.
Rithy Panh
Memory
About
How
Repeated
Years
Times
Gestures
Same
Many
Film
Earlier
I used to love watching Angela Lansbury and other people when they were doing voice-overs for Disney shows. You'd see them doing these wild gestures in front of the microphone. I used to think, 'Is that really necessary?' What you realize when you're doing it is that that's the only way.
Sean Astin
Love
You
People
Think
Other
Wild
Way
See
Angela
Only
Doing
Were
Gestures
Microphone
Front
To Love
Them
Realize
Really
Disney
Used
Shows
Necessary
Watching
In a movie, it's often important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be 'read' by humans. And in the days before sophisticated computer animation, most extraterrestrial bit players were guys in rubber suits. Such practical considerations forced Hollywood's hand when it came to aliens - they look like us for good reasons.
Seth Shostak
Good
Suits
Alien
Important
Before
Extraterrestrial
Considerations
Bit
Guys
Facial
Computer
Animation
Days
Like
Sophisticated
Look
Most
Practical
Forced
Read
Came
Were
Hand
Gestures
Often
Movie
Hollywood
Us
Reasons
Whose
Expressions
Players
Humans
Rubber
Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.
Steven Erikson
Too Much
Affection
Believe
Difficult
Too
Easily
Write
Come
Involve
Particularly
Forced
Friendships
Gestures
Fiction
Much
Across
Many
What I dislike is conventional realism - a system of gestures, descriptions, psychological revelations that was once a vital way of representing the world but has become hackneyed through endless repetition. I'd argue that a conventional realist isn't a realist at all, but a falsifier of the real.
Steven Millhauser
World
Become
Once
Way
System
Vital
Through
Argue
Revelations
Real
Repetition
Gestures
Endless
Representing
Conventional
Psychological
Realism
Realist
Dislike
Descriptions
If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.
Susan Sullivan
You
Yourself
Will
Somewhere
Cast
Because
Understand
Go
Person
Gestures
Just
Your
Who
Actually
Right
I've got a quick mouth, and I set my boundaries. Nothing ever happened that I couldn't handle. Once when a guy came on stage making rude gestures, I hit him over the head with my guitar.
Suzi Quatro
Guitar
Rude
Mouth
Stage
Nothing
Once
Guy
Head
Boundaries
Over
Him
Got
Making
Came
Quick
Hit
Handle
Gestures
Happened
Ever
Set
I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.
Theresa May
Good
You
Good Job
Job
Important
Think
Deliver
Feel
Make
Got
Gestures
Get
Just
Grand
The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote. Our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.
Timothy D. Snyder
Vote
Words
Our
Kind
Minor
Absence
Count
Make
Very
Gestures
Themselves
Much
Choices
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