Quotes About Interpretation

You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?

True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with good reason - that this is what the apostles implied.

I love playing jazz because I love the freedom you have to improvise. It has given me a feeling in my classical repertoire of creating the atmosphere of the here and now.

There's so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn't ever exactly the same.

One of the things you do, when you have a scene or whatever it is you're doing, I replay that scene in my head and pick different positions to watch it from in my head.

We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it.

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

I feel like, with drum programming, the way I used to do it, I'd think of how somebody would play these drum patterns and then try to replicate that through programming. It's not that it's better or worse, it's just a different style.

There is no way for me to replicate for you what a sentence reads like for a Chinese reader.

I like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?'

When you are doing a film about real people, you don't have a lot of manoeuvrability when it comes to how much you can add by way of imagination. You have to replicate what they were like. What you can add to it is your version of it.

When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the new Lexus. You have to know what the guy writing the review cares about to understand his take. Does he like sports cars, or does he like Bentleys?

I find I process the news by listening to someone else's report.

Folks really need to be very cautious about overanalyzing or overparsing what I've said to this reporter or that reporter.

I think the commentarian has taken over, so now what you get is a lot less reporting and more opinion.

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

I don't see the value of boringly reporting the cold facts.

This 'historical record' will exist, flawed as it is, in hundreds of years. What will that tell the future? How accurate are we reporting our lives?

I think that as reporters we certainly bring to bear our own set of experiences, our backgrounds, to our reporting.

People see whatever the media first reports.

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.