"As a rule, one should never place form over content."

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"As a rule, one should never place form over content."

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"Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise."

Hannah Arendt, German Historian

Content, Fidelity, Loyalty, Mind

"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter."

Dean Kamen, American Inventor

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"I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen."

Sam Donaldson, American Journalist

Content, First, Mystery, Want

"I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress."

Elizabeth Montagu, British Writer

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"There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity."

John Doerr, American Businessman

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"It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content."

Steve Crocker, American Businessman

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"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content."

Alfred de Musset, French Writer

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"Be content to seem what you really are."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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"I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter."

Aaron Eckhart, American Actor

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"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."

Imagination

"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."

Decision-Making

"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."

Lifestyle

"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."

Nature

"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."

Positive

"My pleasure was to copy, not to create."

Pleasure

"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."

Life

"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."

Time

"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."

Constitution

"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."

Business