Condensed Quotes (page 2)

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• music
• poetry
• metaphor

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. Walter Mosley

• watch
• experience
• personal

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. Arthur Miller

• cool
• week
• rabbit

I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I've collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments. Gotye

• words
• brief
• word

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. John Dryden

• great
• play
• real

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them. Anne Stevenson

• confidence
• people
• jokes

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke. Tim Vine

• good
• national
• nation

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. James Mackintosh

• words
• burning
• wording

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Robert Southey

• memories
• experience
• literature

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• excellence
• manly
• humanity

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence. Max Lerner

• pretty
• wild
• couple

I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding. Richard King

• creativity
• writing
• promise

Well, we promised our fans that we'd put out records faster, and that's what we're doing. We figured out a way to condense our cycle, so to speak, by... continuing to write, trying to keep the creative ball rolling as often as possible. Chester Bennington

• song
• together
• desperate

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like. Randy Bachman