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By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.


Norman McLaren

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ALAN THICKE Doing two or more things at the same time splits our consciousness in two or more ways.
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MASASHI KISHIMOTO The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
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KONRAD LORENZ Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.
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DAVE KLEIN but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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P. J. HARVEY I think the sea swallowed dozens of tea sets - tossed in abandon off liners or consigned to the tide...
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EDDIE MONEY I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or te...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the g...
DAVE WINFIELD Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to...
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AMEN MUFFLER I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or t...
EDDIE MONEY As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will p...
JOHN DYKSTRA It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the s...
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two -- or more -- answers to the...
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from n...
VILLE VALO In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent t...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER She has taken classes on various ways to create patterns and movements. Our choreography can be quit...
CINDY LAPORTE There is absolutely nothing beautiful about rudeness, whoever you are or wherever you are. Be kind a...
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WARREN BENNIS There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in wh...
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BARBARA KRUGER I am interested in seeing if you can create on film pieces that feel contemporary and urgent.
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GARY BURKHOLDER The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or makin...
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APURVA GAGLANI Truth or Dare ? Dare! Love me Back!
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ANUJ SOMANY Fools can't understand even the gist by reading repeatedly the whole book; wise could comprehend eas...
ANUJ SOMANY A wicked feels proud to see the crowd around oneself often, but a wise feels it is nice to spend mos...
ANUJ SOMANY Concieving a child after treatment from doctors may involve using crooked means by one of the family...
APURVA GAGLANI When a sensible quote is adored a lot by many or most people on a person’s INDIVIDUAL social media...
ANUJ SOMANY A word or music that flows from the soul magically touches the heart of one and all.
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ANUJ SOMANY Be a voice Voice your opinions Voice your thoughts Voice your displeasure Voice your feelings Voice ...
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ANUJ SOMANY The fact is that no one is hated openly so much as one who is true to oneself consistently and no on...
ANUJ SOMANY There is no surprise that every person’s words or thoughts have inherent voice and that clearly re...
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ANUJ SOMANY Live or die, don't hang in between.
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APURVA GAGLANI Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.
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TOBA BETA Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.
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ROBERT ZEMECKIS When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.
BILL HICKS I love mixing and matching patterns, styles old and new, feminine and masculine and drawing inspirat...
SYDNEY WAYSER All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixe...
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BARRY MCCAFFREY My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of song...
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NORMAN THOMAS The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.
NORMAN SHERRY America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredi...
NORMAN MAILER In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that....
NORMAN MAILER There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democrac...
NORMAN MAILER I usually need a can of beer to prime me.
NORMAN MAILER Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its eff...
NORMAN COUSINS Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
NORMAN COUSINS A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and ...
NORMAN DOUGLAS It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, ...
NORMAN TEBBIT Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterran...
NORMAN MAILER Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it ap...
NORMAN PODHORETZ we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
NORMAN MACEWAN You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w...
NORMAN DOUGLAS Aggressive play is a vital asset of the world's greatest golfers. However, it's even more important ...
GREG NORMAN One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and h...
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