Nuance Quotes - Page 7

• All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.

  Paloma Faith

  Moving, Insecure, People

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• I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy.

  Paul Harding

  Worry, Empathy, Depth

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• When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Gains, Youth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.233, Modern Library

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• The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon than the eyes. The mouth is also riddled with a complex interweaving of folds, curves, flats and lost-and-found edges. These nuances are needed by a perceptive person who might try to understand human nature.

  Robert Genn

  Eye, Kissing, Curves

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• The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

  Keith Olbermann

  Men, Politics, Shade

  Keith Olbermann (2008). “Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values”, p.11, Random House

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• Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

  William Safire

  Tired, Needs, Sometimes

  "Dictionaurus" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 10, 2009.

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• The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle when they refrain from grabbing the listener by the shirt.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.35, Ballantine Books

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• In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

  Graham Parker

  Song, Guitar, Ideas

  "Graham Parker on reuniting with The Rumour, constructing the flow of an album, and more". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.

  David Burge

  School, Eagles, Political

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• Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train to Lisbon is a very long, ambitious book that's feverishly overwritten. (...) Think of W.G. Sebald recast for the mass market: stripped of nuance, cooked at high temperature and pounded home, clause after clause. Some of the clumsiness derives from Barbara Harshav's inelegant translation -- we're often aware of her struggle -- but she can't be blamed for the pervasive bloat.

  Michelle Huneven

  Spiritual, Struggle, Book

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• How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

  Lin Yutang

  Summer, Country, Wall

  Lin Yutang (2013). “Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living”, p.74, Read Books Ltd

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• The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills to honour Her. There are no recipes for Autumn.

  Robert Genn

  Nature, Autumn, Artist

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• I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.

  Lake Bell

  Drama, School, Years

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, uk.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• With acting, there are a lot of subtleties and non-verbals involved. If someone is over there, getting eaten by a shark, there's a non-verbal way of how to act that. There's a certain nuance to acting that does not come intuitively to me. It's something I still have to learn.

  Mark McGrath

  Sharks, Acting, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

  Carl Maria von Weber

  Color, Emotion, Language

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• There are so many elements and nuances from the books that are very hard to tell in the length of a movie.

  Jade Hassoune

  Book, Elements, Length

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• The more you spend time with a character, the more you see different nuances of that character.

  Seth Gabel

  Character, Different, Spend Time

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not someone who doesn't want to see the films, but I like to see them as an end product when the whole nuance of the character is put together.

  Juno Temple

  Character, Together, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Details, Snapshots, Pieces

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.44, Univ of California Press

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• To me representing clairvoyance, how was I going to achieve that, how I was going to capture that? For me, it all became about her gaze and the way she takes you in. It's a rhythmic thing and a stillness thing to consider but these are little details, little nuances. We were invited to the sanctity of her home and there were roosters running around and she's screaming, "Jackie, be quiet!" Even though she's in the middle of the thing. And these are the details that we wanted to incorporate into our story.

  Vera Farmiga

  Running, Home, Stories

  "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". Interview by Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• One of the most important skills at [reporting] is not so much what comes out of your mouth but what you hear. To listen. When you interview people, it's very important to understand the nuances of what they're saying and to understand when they have actually made news-when they've told you something that they haven't told anybody else.

  Lester Holt

  Skills, People, Important

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• Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

  James Altucher

  Past, Roaming, Pages

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• But when there were certain moments or scenes that required a very specific nuance or performance, I myself would act out the scene or the sequence and that would inspire the actors. Of course, I can't really express emotions on camera, but I was very active in showing a certain action or a blocking for an actor. I would also participate in certain stunts myself and because of that, I would get bruises or cuts on my knees and elbows.

  Kim Jee-woon

  Block, Cutting, Inspire

  Source: collider.com

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• We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I hope the story is good. I'm going into this venture thinking that the audience is really smart and really wants to hear all the nuances of what we're saying.

  Veena Sud

  Smart, Thinking, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• It's really a trade-off: you're always having to decide whether you're going to say the more ambitious thing, and lose a little clarity - or are you going to say something really clearly, and sacrifice a little nuance? Get too obscure, and you sound like a pretentious asshole; go overboard with the clarity, and you sound like you're talking down to your audience, or like you yourself are a reductive simpleton.

  Elif Batuman

  Sacrifice, Talking, Ambitious

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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