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I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?


Joel Coen


#amount #amusing #because #behave #cares

With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.


Melissa Rosenberg


#condense #condensed #dutch #eight #episode

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.


Christian Louboutin


#complete #example #extravagance #far #for example

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!


John Gresham Machen


#classes #evil #invention

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.


John Major


#dollars #factories #industries #into #inventions

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.


Ernst Mayr


#competitive #doomed #ecological #evolutionary #extinction

Necessity... the mother of invention.


Plato


#mother #necessity

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.


Henry Miller


#admittedly #even #fabric #fiction #invention

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.


Samuel Richardson


#called #integrity #invention #may #mother

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.


Nicolas Roeg


#because #change #deals #death #familiar






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