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Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.
Huston Smith / Professor
Science
Floating
Hands
Huge
Living
Anything
Balloon
Cannot
Illuminate
Outside
See
Shine
Where
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I've always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully illuminate a lot of the important things. It's a challenge, but it's something I kind of believe in.
David Grann / Journalist
Believer
Elements
Important Things
Storytelling
Big Believer
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I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.
Sarah Paulson / Film Actress
Choices
Pieces
Roles
Life Myself Your
Childless
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All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter. And that goes back to Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston - take your pick.
Cheo Hodari Coker / Screenwriter
Judged
Our Lives
Prove
Stories
History Experience Art
Hughes
Illuminate
James
Pick
Ralph
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For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.
Jackson Katz / Educator
Beloved
Brilliance
Engaged
Epitome
Injustice
Millions
Voiceless
Men Women World
Eve
Women Men World
Figure
Illuminate
Uses
Women And Men
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The best moments are when, together with... you bring information, you bring data to bear in a way that helps illuminate something that you just don't really understand. Even if it doesn't completely clarify it, it just, you know, helps bring it together.
Angus Deaton /
Data
Bear
Clarify
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal / Writer
Communication
Action
Cities
Destroying
Disguise
Election
Language
People
Used
Vote
Words
Against
Time Grow People
Own
Grow
City
Too
Confuse
Decadent
Illuminate
Interests
Liberate
Societies
Time People
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My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films that illustrate all that we are and all our nuance and all our complicated beauty and mess, and when you're telling those stories, you gotta have black actors.
Ava Duvernay / Filmmaker
Beauty
Artist
Complicated
Focused
Mess
Nuance
Stories
Actor
Definitely
Films
Gotta
Illuminate
Telling
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I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.
David Maraniss / Journalist
Accidents
Ambition
Believe
Chaotic
Connections
Endless
Lazy
Mystery
Our World
Revealing
Unintended Consequences
Wonder
World
Life Believe I Believe
Life Believe World
Also
Bold
Life World Believe
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Intentions
Jumble
Misconceptions
Unintended
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To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get the conversation going and frame it the right way and make sure people aren't lost. And then you let the candidates illuminate the issues themselves.
John Dickerson /
Candidates
Good Writing
Right Way
Frame
Illuminate
Orwell
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To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.
Paul Rand / Graphic Designer
Design
Poetry
Add
Order
Prose
Simplify
Much
Amuse
Assemble
Clarify
Simply
Edit
Even
Illuminate
Meaning
Modify
Perhaps
Persuade
Transform
Value
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I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.
David Maraniss / Journalist
Book
Dramatic
Looks
Reader
Two
World I Am Me
World Me Look
Arc
Beginning
Carry
Look World I Am
Illuminate
Larger
Subject
Themes
Weave
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Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the margins of history and the forgotten tales that illuminate the whole, complex truth of our flawed yet wondrous nature as a species.
Ken Liu / Fiction Writer
Fantasy
Flawed
Forgotten
Imaginative
Margins
Species
Tales
Taught
Wondrous
Bolder
Characters
Complex
Illuminate
Seek
Researching
Worlds
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What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?
Said Nursi /
Creator
Secret
Subtle
Suffocating
Agent
Countless
Establishing
Heavens
Illuminate
Occurs
Waves
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When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.
Christopher Moore / Writer
Painting
Artful
Illuminate
Immediately
Portion
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All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.
Nancy Kress / Fiction Writer
Former
Human Condition
Latter
Unreal
Condition
Attempt
Author
Balancing
Brilliantly
Illuminate
Succeeds
Tightrope
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I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.
Peter Ackroyd / Biographer
Ambition
Curiosity
Details
Interesting
Luck
Self
Sentences
Frankly
Illuminate
Quite Frankly
Sum
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I just want to shed light, illuminate and turn the spotlight over to all of the black people who have been being futuristic and innovative since instruments were plugged into a wall. With computers, machines, and music, black people have been contributing to that a great deal for a long time.
Kelela /
Computers
Contributing
Futuristic
Innovative
Instruments
Light
Long Time
Machines
Shed
Spotlight
Wall
Time Great Music
Time Music Great
Deal
Great Deal
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Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.
Alan Moore / Writer
Art
Music
Light
Writing
Life Art Music
Little
Lot
Around
Interested
Commemorate
Whatever
Ground
Illuminate
Life Is A
Patch
Places
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Scientists tend to come in two stripes: those who have tremendous appetite and aptitude for the details, and those who illuminate the big picture. Sagan was definitely in the latter category, and he was profoundly good at it. He made connections that others did not have the intellectual breadth or courage to make.
Carolyn Porco / Scientist
Appetite
Aptitude
Big Picture
Breadth
Connections
Details
Intellectual
Latter
Stripes
Category
Tremendous
Illuminate
Profoundly
Scientists
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Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it's occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception.
James Turrell / Artist
Feels
Passing
Perception
Arrest
Generally
Illuminate
Occupying
Plane
Seem
Spaces
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I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.
Mitchell Zuckoff / Professor
Clouds
Fraud
Issues
Mean
Plenty
Social Security
Cloud
Confront
Current
Scheme
Illuminate
Misleading
Unsustainable
Urge
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There is a core value I wanted to illuminate: No matter what kind of family you have - straight, gay, married, single parent, separated, no kids, two kids, 20 kids, whatever - we all go through the human comedy. But if the bonds are strong enough, and the desire is there, you can get to the other side, still together and still a family.
Lisa Cholodenko /
Parent
Single Parent
Bonds
Illuminate
Separated
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