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• Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all hueman diseases. Fear kills dreams!

  Les Brown

  Dream, Disease, Destructive

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• Freedom is not simply the circumstances that allow you to do whatever you want. Freedom is not only the opportunity to choose. Freedom is the strength of character to choose and to do what is right. With that in mind, our age is not an age of freedom, but an age of slavery. It is subtle, but it is real. The foundation of freedom is not power or choice. Freedom is upheld not by men and women in government, but by people who govern themselves.

  Matthew Kelly

  Freedom, Real, Character

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• The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

  George Leonard

  Lying, Discovery, Essence

  George Leonard (1992). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment”, p.69, Penguin

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• Corruption is subtle, just like the Bible said. Many young poets have come to me and asked, How am I gonna make it? They feel, and often with considerable justice, that they are being overlooked while others with less talent are out there making careers for themselves. I always give the same advice. I say, Do it the hard way, and you’ll always feel good about yourself. You write because you have to, and you get this unbelievable satisfaction from doing it well. Try to live on that as long as you’re able.

  Philip Levine

  Writing, Careers, Long

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• Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up--and we are gone.

  Edward Young

  Life, Moving, Slides

  Edward Young (1719). “The dramatic works of Edward Young”, p.72

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• I've had some wonderful ideas for getting the dominating going. I've got some extremely subtle advertising slogans that should get the public behind us. Things like "Vote for EL Wisty and lovely nude ladies will come and dance with you." It's a complete lie, of course, but you can't afford to be too scrupulous if you're going to dominate the world.

  Peter Cook

  Lying, Ideas, Lovely

  "Fictional character: E. L. Wisty". TV Series "On the Braden Beat" ("The World Domination League", 1964), 1962-1967.

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• The subtle dance of the body joins us to the world.

  George Leonard

  World, Body

  George Leonard (2009). “The Silent Pulse”, p.37, Gibbs Smith

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• I love sight gags and broad stuff, but you can get to such a subtle degree, especially with CG animation.

  Peter Sohn

  Sight, Degrees, Stuff

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A character like Wonder Woman is so iconic and yet, over the course of her history, there have been lots of subtle changes. We couldn't stray too far from the comic book look, but you do have a certain amount of leeway in terms of how you interpret those elements for animation.

  Bruce Timm

  Book, Character, Looks

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• As an actor, if you step to the side and you look at [Thornton's performance] technically, and you try to imagine doing what he was doing, most people would panic. Most people would be on the set, and they would be panicking, going, "I'm not doing anything!" All the ham instincts in you would be screaming, "You've got to indicate something here." And it's beautiful, in a way. And so I appreciate, even as an audience member, the courage that it takes to be... frankly, to be subtle.

  Edward Norton

  Beautiful, People, Appreciate

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.

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• A problem that I have with everything fictional is that writers are always having to come up with sudden artillery explosions in the middle of whatever is going on. The characters are having interesting, subtle interactions, or jealousies, or whatever it is, and suddenly some gigantic angry eruption has to happen, a giant gasp where everyone has to scramble around. That's the point where I'm turned off. I want the dynamic range to be a little smaller. I don't like the big false bangs.

  Nicholson Baker

  Character, Interesting, Want

  "Nicholson Baker Navigates The Buffet". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2013.

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• What I like to do is take something from a man's wardrobe and re-proportion it slightly. We've got another jacket in this collection with a smaller shoulder. It's the idea of subtle feminization, to make the clothes more delicate.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Men, Clothes, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes I'm considered, I guess, a subtle actor. Maybe I'm less of a showman and more just trying to tell the story. I don't know what the perception is. I just want to tell the story so the story as a whole works as opposed to just making sure that I work.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Perception, Trying, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

  Marge Piercy

  Reading, Cat, Body

  Source: margepiercy.com

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• Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Mean, Expression, Feelings

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• People talk so much to me about the beauty of confidence. They seem to entirely ignore the much more subtle beauty of doubt. To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. The Apostle Thomas was artistic up to a certain point. He appreciated the value of shadows in a picture. To be on the alert is to live. To be lulled into security is to die.

  Robert Smythe Hichens

  Believe, People, Doubt

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• Relaxation, acceptance, and keeping open mind are key. First of all, peak performance isn't possible if one is not relaxed, and if one is going to stay relaxed they must simply accept problems when they arise and decide to solve them. If I can't do a move I merely accept that I haven't discovered the right sequence, instead of trying the same sequence over and over or just quitting. I will try to do it 20 or 30 different ways, making subtle changes in body position and fot placement, until I find something that does work. That's what I mean by keeping an open mind.

  Lynn Hill

  Moving, Mean, Acceptance

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• Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sex, Sunday, Stores

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Law, Cloaks

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.

  Michael Hyatt

  Writing, Important, Inspired

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• Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.

  Win Butler

  Song, Artist, Be True To Yourself

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• We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender.

  Sarah J. Buckley

  Baby, Powerful, Path

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• My mom has a very subtle way of encouraging.

  Craig Mello

  Mom, Way, My Mom

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• The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

  Robert Duncan McNeill

  Stars, Comedy, Ifs

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• Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.

  Keanu Reeves

  Teacher, Mistake, Mean

  "Do What You Love. Keanu and Keanu Doctrine". Interview with Li Hongyu and Wei Jie in Chinese Southern Weekly (translated by Anakin McFly), www.whoaisnotme.net. June 27, 2013.

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