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I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book. Jeffrey Eugenides

Book Language Kind Structure Both Cliches Been Lot Done Experiments Realism Aware

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. Jeffrey Kluger

Learning Behavior Language Mind Beginning Structure Only Particular Look How Scientists Brain Itself Very Closely Influences Acquiring Thing Second

I'd been writing sketches since high school, but 'Friends of the People' really taught me about structure - how to wait out a joke, how to stick with it for a while. It also made me more confident onstage as a performer. Jermaine Fowler

Me People Writing School Wait Made Joke Out High High School About Structure More Onstage Performer Since Also Stick How Been Friends Confident Taught While Sketches Really

Legislative reforms in the 1990s and the public/private structure led managements to expand the GSEs' balance sheets to enormous size, underpinned by wafer-thin slivers of capital, driving high shareholder returns and very high compensation for management. Jerome Powell

Balance Management Enormous High Structure Driving Balance Sheets Returns Sheets Led Very Expand Reforms Legislative Size Capital Compensation

'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. Jerry Leiber

Work Music You Writing Dog Complicated Energy Difficult Took City Easy Minutes Structure Scheme Hound Like Spontaneous Piece Also Hear Metric Maybe Blues Eight Rhyme Kansas Kansas City Twelve Early

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself. Jerry Saltz

Soul Heart Cafe Vision Thought Radical Down Distortion Van Van Gogh Spine Structure Color New Make Him Felt Still His Intellect Density Itself Send Gogh Intensity Pathos Dynamic Whether Bridge Paintings Starry Night

I find it hard to write with writers sometimes because of their way of writing. Some are heavily focused on structure, but I have more of a 'Let's go with it' mindset. I like to be creative, and when I hear something that inspires me, I'll come up with a melody, a lyric to that melody, and take it from there. I try to keep it open. Jess Glynne

Me Creative Writing Sometimes Try Lyric Mindset Way Melody Focused Find Some Something Structure More Inspires Write Take Writers Open Come Like Because Go Hear Up Hard Keep

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves. Jesse Ventura

Truth God Freedom Religion People Nation Think Everybody Fathers Minds Out Religious Religious Belief About Structure Could Know Make Make Up Sure Does Built Lots Up Anybody Themselves Really Who Belief Why Founding Founding Fathers

It took me many years to figure out how to structure a compelling story. Jessica Abel

Me Took Out Structure How Years Story Figure Many Compelling

I think about the structure, sure. I think about what's going to happen, and how it's going to happen, and the pace. But I think if I stop to think about it in an abstract sense, I feel very daunted. I just try to enter into the story and feel my way through it. It's a very murky, intuitive way of going about it. Jhumpa Lahiri

There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction. Jim Piddock

Family Nature Three Beginning Every Tree Structure Direction Almost Traditional End Branches Infinite Middle Different Episodes Act Explore

I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up. Jim Rash

Responsibility Think Structure Parts Huge Up Getting Growing Growing Up

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society. Jo Brand

Society Something Structure More Female Comics Male Times Than Social

The convertible note is a useful and common financing structure in Silicon Valley. It's a form of debt that is really more a type of equity - one where the valuation hasn't been determined yet. Joe Lonsdale

Type Valley Financing Silicon Silicon Valley Determined Structure More Equity Been Debt Common Where Form Convertible Note Really Useful

The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system - anything from soil structure, in economics... but where to start is with true ecological function. Joel Salatin

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people. Joey Skaggs

Reality People Try Structure Always False Create Convince Help Plausible

Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed. Johannes Stark

Great Problem Will Those Solution Follow Follow-Up Atomic Structure Directly Scientists Up Contribute Which Measure Many Expressed Phenomena

With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms. Johannes Stark

Myself Change Mind Atoms Some Structure Investigation Between Particular Chemical Years Task Experimental Twenty Set

In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta. Johannes Stark

Me Result Several Atom Structure Emission Individual Parts Line Interconnected Co-Operation View Electric Whole Appeared Coherence

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure. John Boyd Orr

Knowledge Political Fall Every Increase Changes Though Brought About Rise General Structure Economic Empires Principles Survived Social

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind. John Burroughs

Art Bird Secret Bits Kind Bizarre Nest Weaving Seem Betrayed Give Structure Both Conceal Material Traditions Which Then Showy Now Now And Then Away Violate Position

Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing. John Edgar Wideman

Music Art Time Silence Our Our Music Marks Silences Structure Point Shapes Counterpoint African-American Spaces Rhythm Fill

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