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  • Lego was our fourth film, because we did two Cloudys, so yeah there's a little bit of shorthand that's involved and then you can anticipate things- because for me it's like, I get a script for a movie and I go, "Wow that's a pretty good script", then you sign on and a couple months later they show you the first cut and you're like, "Whoa, how did that happen?"

    Couple   Cutting   Two  
    Source: collider.com
  • [The Coen brothers] hire the same people over and over again, so there's a shorthand between all of the people they're working with.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're into a different kind of recycling. Moviemakers give movies of the past an authority that those movies didn't have; they inflate images that may never have compelled belief, images that were no more than shorthand gestures and they use them not as larger-than-life jokes but as altars.

    Art   Past   Zest  
    "A Bad Dream/A Masterpiece". Review of "The Moon in the Gutter" on September 19, 1983. "State of the Art". Book by Pauline Kael, p. 48, 1985.
  • The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by usage no longer means anything.... To use the word God is more than sloth, it is a refusal to think, a king of short cut, a hideous shorthand.

    God   Kings   Mean  
  • While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

    "Memo to Obama: Get back in touch" by ee Dee Myers, www.politico.com. March 12, 2010.
  • When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

  • Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

    Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
  • Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

  • What really interests me, on a deeper level, is how our information is coming to us in some kind of messed up way that is making us idiotic. I don't think we've become more idiotic than we always were, but I think the information transfer is funky. The shorthand of it is that social media is making us mentally insane.

    Thinking   Media   Insane  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with someone who's been an actor.

    "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap

    Mistake   Echoes   May  
    Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.167, Simon and Schuster
  • When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.

    Source: collider.com
  • Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had to rewrite the whole thing in shorthand, smashing it into two dimensions, just to talk about it. Or don’t imagine it. Look outside. Human language is our attempt at navigating God’s language; it is us running between the lines of His epic, climbing on the vowels and building houses out of the consonants.

    Running   Epic   Climbing  
  • Music is the shorthand of emotion.

  • A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

    Class   Yeoman   Firsts  
  • I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.

    Cat   Boredom   Want  
  • My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

    Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2003.
  • After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

    Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.80, Allison & Busby
  • As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if only because of the ubiquitous phenomenon of exaptation.

    Taken   May   Etc  
    Source: libcom.org
  • All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins.

  • Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

    Music   Men   Jazz  
  • When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

    Luxury   Adam   Term  
    P.J. O'Rourke (2009). “On The Wealth of Nations: A Book that Shook the World”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • That was cool, because they've all [ George Clooney and Josh Brolin and Scarlett Johansson] worked with the Coens. They were much more at ease with them at the outset, and they were all kind of familiar with the shorthand that the Coens had.

    Ease   Kind   Josh  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.

    Causes   Minutes   Clinic  
  • In A Brief History Of Time I used the word "God" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics. However, this is not what most people mean by God, so I have decided not to use the term. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a God.

    Mean   Law   People  
    "Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.
  • Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

    Gore Vidal (2003). “Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta”, p.50, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
  • The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.

  • Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists deny that mathematics, except as a shorthand or expository device, can be applied to economic reasoning. There have even been rumors that mathematics is used in economics (and in other social sciences) either for the deliberate purpose of mystification or to confer dignity upon common places as French was once used in diplomatic communications.

    "The World of Mathematics".
  • You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

    Python   People   Routine  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.

    Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.4, Ballantine Books
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