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I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy. -- Paul Muldoon
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. -- William Wilberforce
I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web. -- Jill Abramson
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past. -- Kenneth Tynan
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.' -- David LaChapelle
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. -- Eugene Field
Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch. -- Paul McGann
People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything. -- Emily Blunt
But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment. -- Donald Judd
I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you. -- Malcolm Turnbull
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. -- Muhammad Iqbal
What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy. -- Tom Cruise
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it. -- Baz Luhrmann
I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat. -- Chuck D
I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion -- Theodore Roethke
Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now. -- Mike Nichols
There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation. -- Adam Driver
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas. -- Paul Mellon
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern. -- Aaron Funk
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification. -- Joe McNally
Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed. -- Damian Loeb
She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect. -- Anne Edwards
The immediacy of the mobile changes it from what we're accustomed to in the personal computing world to something that's instantaneous... What's interesting and powerful about the mobile environment is that it's connected to services on the Internet. This augments both platforms. -- Vint Cerf
The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself. -- Lukas Haas
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor. -- Walter Murch
I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like. -- Nick Denton
The immediacy of public interaction is just unbeatable. -- Nick Kroll
Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy. -- Iain Banks
Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment. -- Elizabeth David
Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy. -- Abe Ajay
[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation. -- Joel Meyerowitz
I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy. -- Ruskin Bond
I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us. -- Sarah Paulson
Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening. -- B. Alan Wallace
Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout. -- Jules Olitski
Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy. -- Tina Fey
Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life. -- Pema Chodron
The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect -- Vern Rutsala
Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings. -- Martin Buber
An extraordinary dancer, whose blend of tautness and buoyancy is not only exciting but also suggestive of clarity and immediacy with which dance can communicate deep, conflicting emotions. -- Jennifer Dunning
Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual. -- David Amerland
Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image. -- Bianca Jagger
Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now. -- Sri Chinmoy
I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator. -- Laurie Graham
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Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence. -- Kenny Smith
[W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused. -- Laurie Garrett
Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues. -- Hedrick Smith
I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world. -- Tamara Tunie
I got into photography because of the immediacy of the medium. I used to sit in front of a canvas for weeks trying to create something. Now I can see the image right away. -- Mario Sorrenti
My favorite part is being engaged with somebody's story and life, and getting a laugh with people I have a tremendous amount of respect for or not, and being challenged by the immediacy of conversation. -- Marc Maron

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