"there are elements of truth in all great fiction"
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"It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good hostess introduces a third element or removes the first."
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"I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?"
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"I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism."
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"Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity."
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"Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion."
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"I'm a thug. And my thug comes from... my definition of thug comes from half of the street element. Straight street hustling."
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"In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results."
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"In the same way, the people whom I most abhor, I abhor them for elements that I abhor in myself."
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"David Bowie used to cover loads of people, and there was an element of "David Bowie did it, so we wanted to do it," because we're kind of obsessed [with him]."
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"Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia."
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"We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed."
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"every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all."
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"When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry."
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"I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art."
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"The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences."
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"You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice."
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"Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live on and on."
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"Chemistry ceases to improve when one element is found from which all others are deductible. Physics ceases to progress when one force is found of which all others are manifestations. So religion ceases to progress when unity is reached, which is the case with Hinduism."
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"I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn`t quite of the real world."
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