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The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.
Tom Robbins
Break
Create
End
Freedom
Function
Gives
In The End
Mischief
People
Really
Some
Sort
Stir
Taboos
Things
Up
Want
Cinema isn't just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It's specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level, superheroes, whether in print or on film, serve the same function for their audience as Golden Age movie stars did for theirs: they create glamour.
Virginia Postrel
Age
Audience
Cinema
Create
Did
Emotional
Emotional Level
Film
Function
Fundamental
Glamour
Golden
Golden Age
Good
Graphic
Graphic Novels
In Print
Just
Level
Medium
Movie
Movie Stars
Novels
Print
Same
Serve
Specifically
Stars
Superheroes
Translating
Whether
The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.
William T. Vollmann
Function
Instant
Interest
People
Specialize
Specialized
Everything in horror film is about transgression, and the young audience wants to touch something that is forbidden and is, by function, anti-establishment. It is a way for young audiences to express rebellion and also to deal with very modern fear but in a very playful way, in a very symbolic way.
Christophe Gans
About
Also
Audience
Audiences
Deal
Everything
Express
Fear
Film
Forbidden
Function
Horror
Horror Film
Modern
Playful
Rebellion
Something
Symbolic
Touch
Transgression
Very
Wants
Way
Young
I'm OK with procedural code, and the web is a top-down type of problem. It makes sense to me that you have HTML, you spit out a bunch of HTML, then you call a function to do something and then call another function.
Rasmus Lerdorf
Another
Bunch
Call
Code
Function
Html
Makes
Me
Ok
Out
Problem
Procedural
Sense
Something
Spit
Then
Type
Web
You
The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. It's an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
Aimee Mullins
Cell
Cell Phone
Cell Phones
Daily
Day
Feel
Function
Having
Home
Idea
Impacted
Important
Leave
Most
Part
People
Phone
Phones
Tool
You
Your
A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!
Jean Giraudoux
Artist
Business
Certificate
Cheese
Commodity
Creative
Creative Artist
Customer
Fields
Financier
Function
Imagination
Like
Our
Poets
Pound
Sell
Share
Shovel
Stimulate
Stock
Tool
View
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
Dr. An Wang
Common
Common Sense
Consistent
Function
Genius
More
Sense
Success
Success Is
Than
I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.
Jodi Picoult
About
Act
Apart
Does
Everyone
Falls
Families
Function
Morning
One Morning
Pack
Packs
Parameters
Realized
Role
Succeeds
Thinking
Up
Whole
Within
Woke
Wolf
Wolves
You
Your
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
Brene Brown
Aches
Apart
Belong
Belonging
Biologically
Break
Deep
Fall
Function
Get
Hurt
Love
Loved
Meant
Met
Need
Needs
Numb
Others
People
Physically
Sense
Sick
Spiritually
Those
To Love
Were
Wired
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
Michael Graves
Any
Architecture
Between
Equity
Function
Pragmatic
Symbolic
To be memorable and to have dramatic impact, informational detail must function actively within the dynamic of a story.
Tim O'Brien
Actively
Detail
Dramatic
Dynamic
Function
Impact
Informational
Memorable
Must
Story
Within
In every phase of the automotive industry, certain factors have been more important than all others in relation to the way the automobile has looked. Phase One is really the Ford story. Function and production were the most important considerations. The automobile was an invention, and it looked like one.
Raymond Loewy
Automobile
Been
Certain
Considerations
Every
Factors
Ford
Function
Important
Industry
Invention
Like
Looked
More
Most
Others
Phase
Production
Really
Relation
Story
Than
The Most Important
Way
Were
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other.
Raymond Loewy
Better
Better Looking
Between
Equal
Function
Looking
Other
Price
Products
Quality
Two
Will
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
Alfred Russel Wallace
Attach
Changes
Clear
Conception
Function
Mind
Molecular
Product
Say
Use
Which
Words
We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.
Rudolf Bing
Frames
Function
Masterpieces
Modern
Museum
Old
Present
Similar
The idea that one might use art for 'instrumental' reasons tends to set off alarm bells at the heart of the cultural elite, who contend that it's not a pill, that it shouldn't be asked to perform some specific function, especially something as egocentric as to 'cheer you up' or to 'make you a more empathetic person.'
Alain de Botton
Alarm
Art
Asked
Bells
Cheer
Contend
Cultural
Egocentric
Elite
Empathetic
Function
Heart
Idea
Instrumental
Make
Might
More
Off
Perform
Person
Pill
Reasons
Some
Something
Specific
Tends
Up
Use
Who
You
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
Johan Huizinga
Act
Adaptive
Experience
Function
Human
Human Experience
Other
Own
Play
Some
Special
Subordinate
Uniquely
When I was a kid and I'd be in trouble. I'd ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn't talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Anymore
Ask
Began
Find
Fire
Function
God
Got
Help
Him
Just
Kid
Me
Needed
Older
Once
Out
Some
Spiritually
Talk
Then
Trouble
Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.
Robin S. Sharma
Contribution
Function
Richness
Size
Success
Success Is
Title
Your
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