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• The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone your muscles.

  Lev Yashin

  Strong, Nerves, Calm

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• In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where music is still used as a magical force, the making of an instrument always involves the sacrifice of a living being. That being's soul then becomes part of the instrument and in the tones that come forth, the 'singing dead,' who are ever present with us, make themselves heard.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Sacrifice, Animal, Soul

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• Don't choose anything that's two tones lighter than your natural lip tone, and make sure there's a little pink in the hue so it doesn't look too washed out.

  Charlotte Tilbury

  Two, Looks, Hue

  "Charlotte Tilbury on the Product She Would Use on Kate Middleton, the Surprising Thing in Her Makeup Bag, and More". Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. October 7, 2014.

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• There are parliamentarians in Australia I really support. People through history, you know? Men like Ned Kelly in Australia who challenged ideals. Governor William McKell in Australia really set the tone of building a nation. The fundamentals of the country are built on what the governor McKell created. I think Sea Shepherd (Conservation Society) is a wonderful organization and I support what they do.

  Dustin Clare

  Country, Thinking, Men

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• Even if nobody's singing, just when you talk, you're singing. I'll meet somebody and say, "Oh, I'm tone-deaf." I say, "You're not tone-deaf, because if you were tone-deaf you would speak like that. But you're 'Oh, I'm tone-deaf.' You already sang a song to me."

  Wynton Marsalis

  Song, Singing, Speak

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Trump is a little tone-deaf to the average American. He unveiled his slogan this week: 'Are you better off than you were four wives ago?'

  Bill Maher

  Average, Wife, Four

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• To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Mind, Body

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an American visitor had just publicly disproved his favourite theory. The old man strode to the front of the lecture hall, shook the American warmly by the hand and declared in ringing, emotional tones: "My dear fellow, I wish to thank you. I have been wrong these fifteen years." And we clapped our hands red. Can you imagine a Government Minister being cheered in the House of Commons for a similar admission? "Resign, Resign" is a much more likely response!

  Richard Dawkins

  Men, Emotional, Self

  "Science, delusion and the appetite for wonder". www.edge.org. December 21, 1996.

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• You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, People, Giving

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• We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of culter and are content with the unknowable in a self-satisfied way. For us there is no unknowable, and in my opinion there is also non whatsoever for the natural sciences. In place of this foolish unknowable, let our watchword on the contrary be: we must know - we shall know.

  David Hilbert

  Philosophical, Believe, Self

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• Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Reading, Heart, Artist

  Jonathan Lethem (2011). “Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel”, p.11, Vintage

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• A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Lying, Boys, Desire

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Ghost Stories”, p.88, Mondial

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• The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little in the way of the creative collaboration - no cameras, lighting or even locations. Then, once we record, the post process is very similar to the post flow in filmmaking - editing, sound design, mixing, etc. At the end of the day, it's all about storytelling and honing in on a tone by developing a rhythm and structure that suits the storytelling.

  Glenn McQuaid

  Editing, Creative Collaboration, Design

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The Daredevil comic book was the first comic book Marvel had ever put out that was an adult R-rated book, so I started with that. When I was creating the series, I just started with that tone, and that edge, and it just kept going.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Book, Creating, Adults

  Source: deadline.com

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• The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Light

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

  Jack Nicholson

  Crazy, Men, Heat

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• Why tone down my aggressiveness? When I do, I get in trouble.

  Jimmy Rollins

  Trouble, Aggressiveness

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• Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

  Chris Bosh

  Leader, Peers, Looks

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• To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils.

  Joan Baez

  Running, Brother, Eye

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• To me, the coolest riffs are composed of two guitar parts that interlock like gears. You need both parts to make whole. I work things out on an electric that's not plugged in to make sure a good tone isn't forgiving a part that couldn't stand up naked. Only after the parts are written will I struggle to find a tone that supports the creativity.

  Richard Lloyd

  Struggle, Creativity, Guitar

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• I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.

  Grace Jones

  Thinking, Stronger, Males

  "Grace Jones Gets In Touch With Her Masculinity" by ween.com, September 5, 2000.

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• Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Writing, Tunes, Composer

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• Tone is always such an important thing, and that's achieved through a multitude of people. It comes through the writing, it comes through the way it's shot, and it comes through the production design and the sound design.

  Harry Treadaway

  Writing, People, Design

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Stories, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.

  Michel Gondry

  Thinking, Consistent, Naive

  "Not Quite Human: Michel Gondry Makes The Leap To Features With 'Human Nature'". Interview with Guy V. Cimbalo, www.indiewire.com. April 11, 2002.

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