Marcel Duchamp

I never finished the 'Large Glass' because, after working on it for eight years, I probably got interested in something else; also, I was tired. It may be that, subconsciously, I never intended to finish it because the word 'finish' implies an acceptance of traditional methods and all the paraphernalia that accompany them.

French Artist

George Stevens

It's like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time. You need an executive head to handle all the vast paraphernalia of moviemaking. You need another, more sensitive head to get the delicate human emotional values you are trying to put on film.

American Director

Jodi Picoult

On a shelf above my computer are five letters that spell out W-R-I-T-E. Just in case I forget why I'm there. I also have 'Wonder Woman' paraphernalia from when I wrote five issues of the comic, and pictures of my husband and kids.

American Author

Christopher Daniels

When you start to add paraphernalia into a match whether it's a ladder match or a tables match or anything, any of these outside factors, you start to ramp up the intensity and you ramp up the difficulty in these matches.

Ayushmann Khurrana

I couldn't be a conventional commercial actor without being a star-kid. That kind of a big film needs a certain mounting, a little paraphernalia around you. And nobody would give me that.

Indian Actor

Stephen Fry

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

British Comedian

Sarah Gadon

I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels.

Canadian Actress

Robert Owen

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Welsh Writer

Trevor Dunn

Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

American Musician

Morena Baccarin

My son's baby paraphernalia always ends up in my bag.

Brazilian Actress

Used for items specific to an activity; you wouldn't call random items 'paraphernalia'.

Activity Specific

Usually refers to more than one item, rarely used in singular form.

Often Plural

Items are related to the activity but not always essential for its execution.

Not Necessarily Essential

Understand it's about a spouse's personal items distinct from shared property.

Legal Context

It refers to the personal effects worn or carried by a married individual.

Marital Property

This legal meaning is specialized and not commonly used in everyday English.

Not Common Use

 hundreds of pounds of batteries and solar panels tablet computers, cameras, all the paraphernalia of technology we need to share these experiences with the world. To do the science we need to do, to measure impacts in the future to understand exactly the way this wilderness is now before it is disturbed by developments upstream.

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 The design of the Chicago flag has complete buy-in with an entire cross-section of the city. It is everywhere; every municipal building flies the flag. Whet There's probably at least one store on every block near where I work that sells some sort of Chicago flag paraphernalia.

Why city flags may be...

 they produce for that the feathers all the paraphernalia would be very dramatic and it doesn't take a huge leap of the imagination to put yourself in the position of those birds and be impressed beyond bounds and beyond speech i mean

Paraphernalia

Activity Specific

Often Plural

Not Necessarily Essential

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