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"It's commonly assumed that the emergence of language was a key element of the great leap. We of course know very little about the sociopolitical conditions that existed at the time, but there's no scenario I can think of that suggests how a sudden change in these conditions could have led to the emergence of language."
"I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources."
"The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements."
"The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?"
"I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present as it's pretty insane as it is."
"There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative."
"I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way."
"Time itself is an element."
"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate."
"Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element."
"The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly."
"If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness."
"For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced."
"The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me."
"We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children."
"To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense."
"My films have always had an element of immediate autobiography, in that I shoot any particular scene according to the mood I'm in that day, according to the little daily experiences I've had and am having - but I don't tell what has happened to me. I would like to do something more strictly autobiographical, but perhaps I never will, because it isn't interesting enough."
"We all know the experience when you go to a film and it feels partial. There were elements that you really love, but it doesn't feel like they fully owned all elements of it."
"In modern studios, we're so used to becoming little dictators; you're used to the fascism of having complete control over every element."
