#distort

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so. ↗

— James L. Brooks

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Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews. ↗

— Tom Metzger

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Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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Live interviews are more difficult to distort. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

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We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change. ↗

— Chuck Jones

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