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Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.
David Mitchell
Time
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True
,
Long
I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.
Enya
Down
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Start
,
Playing
If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
Van Morrison
Together
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Play
,
Songs
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.
Kevin Kelly
Impossible
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Full
,
Current
But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.
Kevin Kelly
History
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Common
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Ability
Every season we try to do something new. And not for gimmicks. We feel the show has to evolve and keep changing.
Tom Colicchio
Try
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Keep
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Show
I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.
Andrew Motion
Moving
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Direction
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Seems
The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
Ben Bernanke
Chance
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Public
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Guidance
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'
Joshua Foer
Words
,
Through
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Process
I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.
Tim Scott
Amazing
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Live
,
Country
Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
Martin Amis
Great
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Person
,
Different
Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.
Vinny Guadagnino
Mind
,
Through
,
Sometimes
I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.
Jason Bateman
Big
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Face
,
Fat
We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward.
Mitchell Reiss
Forward
,
Bad
,
Thinking
It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.
Janet Napolitano
Technology
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Security
,
Changing
I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.
Miguel Jontel Pimentel
Artist
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Natural
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Explore
I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.
John Kricfalusi
Character
,
Hard
,
Down
I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
Madeleine Stowe
Humor
,
Respect
,
Character
I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.
Meredith Monk
Learn
,
Artist
,
Emptiness
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
Harrison Birtwistle
Change
,
Ideas
,
Layers
I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.
David McCullough
Character
,
Stories
,
Drawn
People have to evolve.
Caprice Bourret
The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
Walter Salles
Time
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Freedom
,
Done
I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
Rupert Sheldrake
Nature
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Laws
,
Habits
If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.
Angela Kinsey
Love
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Change
,
Character
Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
Daniel Dennett
Become
,
Religious
,
Internet
Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.
Nina Fedoroff
Change
,
Makes
,
Everybody
I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.
Chely Wright
Music
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Important
,
Tradition
We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.
Billy Sheehan
Music
,
Again
,
While
I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.
Jessica Hagedorn
Coming
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Heard
,
Fiction
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