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Sense Quotes
"And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense."
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"I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is."
4
"You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense."
4
"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."
4
"I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front."
4
"A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense."
4
"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island."
3
"My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote."
3
"The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it."
3
"I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense."
3
"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."
3
"Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much."
3
"Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word."
3
"I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense."
3
"It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined."
3
"It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner."
3
"There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense."
3
"For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality."
3
"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
3
"In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense."
2
"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."
2
"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."
2
"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."
2
"I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock."
2
"I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies."
2
"Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well."
2
"I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour."
2
"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things."
2
"It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking."
2
"I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict."
2
"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
2
"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."
1
"I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me."
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