Tone Quotes - Page 13

• Audiences trust Westerns when you hit the right tone. I think they're not in vogue, but they will always be in vogue when you hit the right note.

  Kevin Costner

  Thinking, Notes, Vogue

  "EMMYS: Kevin Costner On 'Hatfields & McCoys'". Interview with Anthony D’Alessandro, deadline.com. June 25, 2012.

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• I created a tone for network television that they hadn't really been seen before. And I have to admit that was really more of an accident. I was just writing the way I write.

  Marc Cherry

  Writing, Television, Way

  Source: deadline.com

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• I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They were the script which had a different direction to it, and it was a chance to do a very different Quaid. I didn't read the short story until I went to college.Reading the story had a different effect on me of how I pictured him to be and the tone of the story was different. In the story, he's a bit more of an everyman.

  Len Wiseman

  Reading, College, Different

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• The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.

  Josh Radnor

  Attitude, Important, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.

  Richard Cecil

  Children, Home, Mind

  Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) (1854). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition”, p.137

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• The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Book, Reading, Heart

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• John Coltrane is still probably one of the greatest musicians of this century. His tone truly puts demons on a leash. His gift is directly from the mind of God and is very powerful. ..... The first time I heard a Love Supreme, it was really an assault. It could've been from mars as far as i was concerned, or another galaxy.
  I remember the album cover and the name, but the music didn't fit into the patterns of my brain at that point. It was like someone trying to tell a monkey about spirituality or computers, you know, it just didn't compute.

  Carlos Santana

  Powerful, Names, Mind

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• Our spouse will usually interpret our message based on our tone of voice, not the words we use.

  Gary Chapman

  Voice, Use, Messages

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.30, Moody Publishers

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• Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or cute they are. Somehow those skin tones that look so good with dark, dark hair just don't work for me with lighter shades.

  John Byrne

  Cute, Dark, Hair

  "John Byrne Explains Why 'Racebending' Doesn't Help The Fantastic Four Reboot" by ComicBookMovie.com, June 21, 2014.

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• Our identity sets the tone for all we do and become. Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They don't work to fit into other people's expectations, but burn with the realization of who the Father. says they are.

  Bill Johnson

  Christian, Father, People

  Bill Johnson (2010). “Dreaming with God: Co-Laboring with God for Cultural Transformation”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Stupid, Thinking, Voice

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• Tone is everything in TV.

  Ryan Murphy

  Tvs

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• To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from this old concept and arrive at an image in which the spectator could feel the beauty of a fourth dimension, which lies much more between moments than within a moment. In music one remembers never one tone, but a melody, a theme, a movement. In dance, never a moment, but again the beauty of a movement in time and space.

  Ernst Haas

  Lying, Ideas, Space

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• Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the pastels in less important areas.

  Paul Murray

  Past, Important, Looks

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• God has given us a revelation in regard to celestial marriage. I did not make it. He has told us certain things pertaining to this matter, and they would like us to tone that principle down and change it and make it applicable to the views of the day. This we cannot do; nor can we interfere with any of the commands of God to meet the persuasions or behests of men. I cannot do it, and will not do it.

  John Taylor

  Men, Views, Principles

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• I cannot see how it can be argued that one should speak in tones of reverence and awe about the alleged divine instruction-in Psalms-to grab the defenseless bodies of innocent infants and dash their brains out against the nearest rocks or walls.

  Steve Allen

  Bible, Religious, Wall

  Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”

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• For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on White Collar over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.

  Matt Bomer

  Fun, Character, Years

  Interview with Fred Topel, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 6, 2015.

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• Very thorough in the rehearsal process but more in terms of just understanding the characters, understanding where the actors are at with discovering those characters for themselves, and just setting an overall emotional tone for the piece as opposed to necessarily getting things up on their feet or staging scenes.

  Kate Winslet

  Character, Emotional, Feet

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The tone of the picture and the atmosphere was in my head and in my blood in a way once I'd decided to make the picture. I had to find my way through that to choose, select, emphasise certain visual elements and sound.

  Martin Scorsese

  Blood, Atmosphere, Sound

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Actually, I was rock climbing on this film at 7 in the morning. It was quite unique! But in any event, the colour of the leaves disturbed me so we had to work on that. On the other hand, I didn't want to drench it in a kind of depressing tone.

  Martin Scorsese

  Depressing, Morning, Unique

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's lots of good movies where you feel that the dialogue could be improvised, but very little was. The "Big Lebowski" was like that where people say "oh, you know, that sounds so..." and we'd always go back and get every man, every ellipses in there the way these guys write it. Because not only is it saying what Michael wants the character to say but the way they all speak kind of creates this tone because it's not exactly real.

  Jeff Bridges

  Real, Character, Writing

  "Jeff Bridges Is Making a Porno in The Amateurs". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. December 6, 2007.

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• I think there were moments on Snow White where I wished there was a little bit more of a sick humor toward Ravenna. But maybe the tone of the movie couldn't really support that. So you always have to kind of figure out where you are and adapt to it.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, White, Sick

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do feel like there's a spirit and a tone you can set that lets people know that they're appreciated for being there. It's a sense of spirit that I think every film should have.

  Cameron Diaz

  Thinking, Should Have, People

  "The Holiday - Cameron Diaz interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I've learned to be more reserved, watch what I'm saying; I got in a little bit of trouble. People tell me 'Never lose that, never lose that,' but then I get in trouble so I have to lose it. I'm trying to keep a little bit; I'm never going to lose who I am, I just gotta tone it down a little bit.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Who I Am, People, Trying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Sometimes you think, "Oh man, this is going to be a fantastic movie," and then when you see it put together, you're like, "Oh, huh. Well, that didn't turn out quite the way I thought." Sometimes you think you're part of a project and it isn't that great, and then it sort of becomes a pleasant surprise. But I think there's just too many elements that affect the tone of a movie, so I think even for a director, it may be hard to gauge that.

  Anna Faris

  Men, Thinking, Together

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. April 7, 2009.

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