Quotes About Summarization

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The scenes reminded me of a Macedonian satirist's brilliant summation of the ethos behind the killing: "Why should I be a minority in your state when you can be a minority in mine?

I wanted to make 'Nobody Knows,' a kind of summation of the experiences I gained from making my first three films, the good ones as well as the bad ones.

Payattention.  As a summation of all that I have had to say as a writer, I would settle for that.  And as a talisman or motto for that journey in search of a homeland, which is what faith is, I would settle for that too.

Anything that can be put in a nutshell, should remain there.

Some books cannot be summarized; some can be compressed to about ten pages; the majority to zero pages.

I am unable to think of any critical, complex human activity that could be safely reduced to a simple summary equation.

GILMORE    I've talked to people who know more than I do, and people who know less, and I listen, and I decided the only fucking thing I know about death, the only real feeling I have about it, it'll be familiar; I don't think it'll be a harsh, unkind thing. Things that're harsh and unkind, are here on earth, and they're temporary. They don't last. This all passes. That is my summation of my ideas, and I might be all wet.

I specialize in generalizations.

Lunch in Paris, dinner in St. Petersburg had been the kaiser's terse summation of German grand strategy.