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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive. -- Katey Sagal
When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before. -- James Levine
Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling. -- Michael Beck
When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror. -- Jimmy Webb
Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you. -- Mike Judge
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. -- Paul de Man
You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to only a few interpretive performers. She finds meaning and depth and soulfulness in a song that often the writer and composer never really knew was there. -- Clive Davis
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions. -- Zadie Smith
There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems. -- Gus Van Sant
The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show. -- Damon Lindelof
Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive. -- Elliott Erwitt
Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet. -- Umberto Eco
When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism. -- D. H. Lawrence
Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form. -- Clint Eastwood
Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless. -- Tom Boellstorff
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective. -- Umberto Eco
I was always interested in dance as a creative art and traditionally dance is taught as an interpretive art. -- Jack Waters
Acting is mostly interpretive. They use different parts of you, and different sides of you, and different so-called talents. -- Mick Jagger
I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed. -- Kiersten White
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..I heard Ori Kam and was deeply impressed with his achievements as a violist. His technical and interpretive skills are truly unique. I see a great future for him. -- Itzhak Perlman
Criticism can be wonderful, especially in making connections in an interpretive way. But by applying theories randomly, it's an interesting exercise, but I don't think it illuminates the literature. -- T.C. Boyle
I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story. -- Nicholas G. Carr
It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending persons cannot be beneficial to one and all. -- Robert Higgs

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