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I'm primarily interested in examining human issues.
Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues.
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.
The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.
I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.
The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.
We are all cognitive misers. Our brains do not expend mental resources thoroughly examining problems when snap judgments will do.
I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.
Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.
As a professor of marketing, I have a professional interest in examining how companies create integrated messages when communicating a corporate image.
This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It's a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes.
In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
I've been inspired for a long time by Nicole Holofcener. I admire her greatly as an auteur, examining the human condition in a funny, growing, spirited, honestly dark and human way.
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance.
In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.
In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.
That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.
Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different.
As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.
If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
The senior director at the NSC for the Middle East is retired Col. Derek Harvey, an Arabic-speaking intelligence officer with a Ph.D. who served as the head of the U.S. military cell examining the insurgency in Iraq in 2003.
In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.
In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.
Sometimes, when you are not feeling really good is when you tend to write songs because you are internalising everything, and you are examining your thought process, and you are quieter and quite still, so it is when you write things down.
The cliche is that Washington is a transient town of people who blow in and out every four years with the new administrations. But the reality is that people have lived in Washington for generations, and their lives are worth examining, I think.