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  • Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest that an interpretive craftsman, such as an...
  • His main interpretive lens has been the psychoanalytic metaphor of “adaptations,” or unconscious responses to pain, conflict, or uncertainty.
  • The first reason for seeking out travaux préparatoires can be called the interpretive reason.
  • The association traced by Fay between clothes and female agency offers a telling contrast to what Foucault describes as the interpretive techniques of confession.
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