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George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that language can be a dirty trick.
Graham Joyce

Greatest, Political, Matter

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.
Peter Weir

Fear, Words, Put

There are a lot of personal things that take place when becoming governor and I am happy to work with him should he ask. I will give him the best advice I can give.
Scott McCallum

Work, Best, Happy

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.
Jim Hodges

Work, Emotional, Person

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
George C. Williams

Life, Help, Human

The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them.
Angie Martinez

Work, Album, Chose

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Nothing, Philosophy, Sure

Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy.
Klaus Fuchs

Philosophy, Before, Same

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.
Yves Klein

Character, Soul, Same

The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.
Elizabeth George

Life, Great, Character

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.
Preston Manning

Political, Canada, Western

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.
Kenzaburo Oe

Society, Writing, Start

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
Richard Lugar

Time, Experience, Democracy

The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.
Keith Olbermann

Great, Human, Together

You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more.
Montel Williams

Why, After, Away

I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine.
Richard Dooling

Technology, End, Writing

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.
Maximilian Schell

Different, Sometimes, Picture

With our national savings rate well below one-percent, it is imperative that the government embrace innovative and cost-effective means of boosting personal savings.
Jim Cooper

Government, Means, National

Times have changed since 2002 when I won a spot in the group 'Popstars.' Back in the day we would get fan letters in the mail, now you can find anyone and contact people. It's incredible how fans can have a personal connection, share photos, stories.
Josh Henderson

Find, Group, Times

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
Katherine Anne Porter

History, Before, After

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.
Rob Reiner

Best, Children, Political

I really didn't feed off the whole Olympic experience at all, and I regret that from an athletic perspective, and also from a personal experience. I feel like I missed out, so I'm not going to do that this time.
Ryan Hall

Time, Experience, Regret

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
Mary Antin

Morning, School, Pride

I said, 'Wouldn't it be great if Matt Damon's character fell in love with a girl with a real butt?' They were like, 'Yeah sure, sure - here's your personal trainer.'
Franka Potente

Love, Great, Girl

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.
Linda McMahon

My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.
Danny Pudi

Life, Focus, Job

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.
Josiah Warren

Confused, Noisy, Wordy

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.
Richard Chamberlain

Religion, God, Person

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
August Strindberg

Nature, Person, Why

I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.
Brian Sandoval

Education, Alone, Succeed

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