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• I’m beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.

  Leonard Slatkin

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• You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

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•  The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in ‘straw-man device, technique or issue,’ was popularized in American culture by ‘The Wizard of Oz.’

  William Safire

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  Tags in Device, Technique

• There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn’t talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good.

  Gelsey Kirkland

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  Tags in Classical, Technique, Band

• Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

  Renee Fleming

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  Tags in Became, Technique

• Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

  Georg Simmel

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  Tags in Metropolitan, Technique

• To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

  Bill Sienkiewicz

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• When I’m painting the picture, I’m really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don’t get any thrill out of laying it out.

  Frank Stella

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  Tags in Picture, Painting, Technique

• So I have the classic amateur’s technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

  Bill Bruford

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• If it’s fast, no I don’t have enough piano technique. In that case, it’s probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth.

  Bill Bruford

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• Technique is of less interest than character and story.

  William Friedkin

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• Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

  Edvard Munch

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• Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else’s technique. I like mine.

  Frankie Muniz

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  Tags in Acting, Guess, Technique

• Lock it out so you can perform your movement, disarm, or technique.

  Burton Richardson

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  Tags in Movement, Technique, Lock

• I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

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  Tags in Advantage, General, Technique

• Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.

  Troy Vincent

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• I’m not a chef. I haven’t created any new technique in the kitchen. I’m not a rocket scientist. I think I’m good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That’s what I think I’m good at.

  Rachael Domenica Ray

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• I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

  Robin Trower

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• That was’ one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

  Fay Wray

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  Tags in Technique, Himself, Created

• To call something an ‘enhanced interrogation technique’ doesn’t alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it’s almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique.

  Ted Koppel

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