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• The economics of television syndication and DVD sales mean that there's a tremendous financial pressure to make programs that can be watched multiple times, revealing new nuances and shadings on the third viewing. Meanwhile, the Web has created a forum for annotation and commentary that allows more complicated shows to prosper, thanks to the fan sites where each episode of shows like 'Lost' or 'Alias' is dissected with an intensity usually reserved for Talmud scholars.

  Steven Johnson

  Mean, Dvds, Fans

  "Watching TV Makes You Smarter". www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2005.

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• One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to very specific kinds of heroism. Most of us don't get to be Snooki. For most of us heroism has to be in our everyday lives.

  John Green

  Jobs, People, Everyday

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.

  John McPhee

  Horse, Thinking, Opposites

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• To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one’s own style and creatively adjust this to one’s author.

  Paul Goodman

  Thinking, Style, Retreat

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• I need to be spontaneous sometimes. Sometimes I find that the little detail or nuance that you add to it that's based on what's happening at the time that's not very rehearsed often ends up feeling like the funniest thing.

  Thomas Lennon

  Feelings, Details, Add

  "Exclusive: Thomas Lennon on A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR CHRISTMAS 3D; Says There's a Lot of Nudity Including Showering Nuns". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 5, 2010.

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• Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out. So we usually try to stand up to dictators like, well, we won't mention names.

  Jane Fonda

  Names, Trying, Actors

  Interview with Lord Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.

  Michael Haneke

  Details, Emotion

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• I think people who basically do one thing like Eric Clapton is great. But I've always enjoyed playing different kinds of music and playing with different kinds of musicians because I find that really interesting, like learning and working with Kip Hanrahan. There's a great conga player called Milton Cardona and he taught me a lot of the nuances, he's a Santeria Priest and so he knows his onions as it were.

  Jack Bruce

  Player, Thinking, People

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• Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.

  Glen Duncan

  Pain, Ideas, Stupidity

  Glen Duncan (2009). “A Day and a Night and a Day: A Novel”, Ecco

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• History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Dog, Ice, History

  Tracy K. Smith, “Sci-Fi”

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• Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.

  Don DeLillo

  Sex, Media, People

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.769, Pan Macmillan

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• We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed -- these are corruptions.

  Laura Z. Hobson

  Blessed, Feel Better, Differences

  Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Gentleman's Agreement”, p.106, Open Road Media

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• There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.

  Tommy Chong

  Able, Understand Me, Spoken Word

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• This is the problem with foreign policy - talking about foreign policy in a political context. Politics is binary. People win and lose elections. Legislation passes or doesn't pass. And in foreign policy often what you're doing is nuance and you're trying to prevent something worse from happening. It doesn't translate well into a political environment.

  David Corn

  Winning, Talking, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the structure of a drawing rather than the nuances of media.

  Paul Laseau

  Media, Drawing, Sketching

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• In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance by the great central fact of the sunshine; one might pass a lifetime, it seems, between two yawns, lying bronzed and naked in the sand.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Morning, Lying, Sunshine

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• There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

  Woody Allen

  Names, Film, Preoccupation

  "Woody Allen gives you two for one in Melinda and Melinda". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. March 17, 2005.

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• The things that are the hardest are the things that are due the quickest. The more time you have the easier it is to come up with things and navigate. I think the other things that are tough are films that are very, very subtle. Where there are little tiny nuances that make a big difference.

  Christopher Lennertz

  Thinking, Differences, Littles

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• Playing somebody who's real, you can bring all kind of nuances and things to him that you get from source material and things like that, but the more popular or known the person is, the more impossible it is. To get it right, that is the goal.

  Anthony Mackie

  Real, Goal, Impossible

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• There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Men, Shining

  "On the Genealogy of Morality". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Essay 1, Section 5, 1887.

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• You learn new song until you're comfortable with it to where you can record it blindfolded, but then when it comes out on the record, you forget about those little nuances and those little things that you changed during the recording process. It's those spur-of-the-moment things you do that makes it an entirely new beast that you then again have to relearn.

  Chuck Ragan

  Song, Spurs, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime and the violence and the little shocks of good that crawled out from underneath the everyday.

  Colum McCann

  Cities, Everyday, Littles

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.214, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you are unlikely to find a word in your language that exactly matches, so that you are always making a decision about which meaning or nuance to choose, or emphasize, over the others.

  Ann Goldstein

  Decision, Sound, Etc

  Source: time.com

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• I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

  Hari Kunzru

  Leader, Understanding, Morality

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• News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.

  Eliza Griswold

  News, Daily Life, Poetry Is

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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