#composed

People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong? ↗

— Kirk Douglas

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Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions. ↗

— William Falconer

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The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then. ↗

— Gordon Getty

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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. ↗

— Billy Gibbons

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I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts. ↗

— Joseph Haydn

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Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed. ↗

— Allen Johnson

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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. ↗

— Walter Kerr

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Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace. ↗

— Henry Knox

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Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. ↗

— Duke of Wellington

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