Tone Quotes - Page 17

• We keep a lot of humor and laughter in the home. A lot of times these days, people let the stress of life take the joy from the home. When you can laugh and you can have joy, that's very healthy. Victoria is easy going. She's very spontaneous and fun. I can hear her laughter all through the house. It sets the tone for the house. I like someone who can laugh. The second thing is respect. We just do our best. We don't always agree with each other but we make the decision that we want to treat each other with respect.

  Joel Osteen

  Fun, Laughter, Stress

  "Joel Osteen — Always Taking The High Road". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• It is a very small minority point of view and I think, through continuing to set the tone of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, you just have to further marginalize such people. Hopefully one day nobody will think that way.

  Helen Clark

  Acceptance, Thinking, Views

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• You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in command of your music. Only you can control and shape its tone. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

  Suzy Kassem

  Song, World, Shapes

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

  Richard Wagner

  Essence, Able, Instrumental Music

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• When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Shooting, Want, Lasts

  Source: collider.com

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• There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along.

  Fede Alvarez

  Blood, Want, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• You can be Mitt Romney with three marriages and a disastrous speakership, kicked out of the speakership, being reprimanded by the House of Representatives and fined and all that stuff, it doesn`t matter if you sing the right tune with the right tone these days.

  Chris Matthews

  House, Tunes, Three

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms.

  Cornel West

  Plato, Talking, Notes

  Source: genius.com

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• With the tone of the show, like a lot of the films, the Marvel creative team has found a way to bridge really exciting stuff that has real stakes. They balance some of the action stuff that the fans of the comics really want to see with characters that people can relate to and who are very human.

  Clark Gregg

  Team, Real, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Tone is an interesting question because part of the inspiration of looking to song is that Geisel himself - when you think about his animated version of The Grinch - embraced the idea of using songs in unconventional ways, as part of conveying a narrative. The use of music, in this film, is very unconventional, which I love.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Song, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting.

  John Landgraf

  Believe, Pilots, Casting

  Source: collider.com

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• When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination. In the book, it's great when she can push a button and food comes up, as per your order.

  Nina Jacobson

  Book, Reading, Order

  Source: collider.com

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• The hardest thing about doing a series and having it stick is that you've never performed with each other, and the pilot is kind of a dress rehearsal, and you don't know the tone until two or three episodes in.

  David Giuntoli

  Two, Sticks, Dresses

  Source: collider.com

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• We heard about the Smiths later, through friends. What attracted us was how they could get across the meaning of the lyric through the tone of the vocal. A lot of bands just try to be catchy. The Smiths wanted to be more.

  Spencer Smith

  Trying, Band, Catchy

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• Yoga changed my body 100 percent. It tones everything and leans you out. Dancer's pose is amazing. It works every muscle!

  Nina Dobrev

  Yoga, Dancer, Body

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• I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don't think I'd ever change back unless it was for a film.

  Eva Green

  Dark, Thinking, Skin Tone

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• Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her music. I do have her albums, and years ago, when I first heard her sing, I thought she was extraordinary. The tone of her voice, her phrasing, her raw appearance - these qualities were extremely captivating to me.

  Henry Rollins

  Voice, Years, Quality

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• A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Men, Voice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.336, University of Georgia Press

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• I'm not a lawmaker, but I was thinking that if you have a really loud ring tone, maybe you should be stabbed in the ear?

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Ears, Lawmakers

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2013

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• I am sometimes referred to as Excuse Me in an annoyed tone of voice, because apparently I am in the way. I am so sorry. I am supposed to be some sort of mind reader, I guess. I am moving out of the way now as slowly as I possibly can. I am doing this and there's nothing you can do about it.

  Demetri Martin

  Sorry, Moving, Voice

  "Who Am I?" by Demetri Martin, www.newyorker.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.

  Anatole Broyard

  Anxiety, Fiction, Form

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• I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.

  Miles Davis

  Funny, Mean, Player

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• Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President's.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  President, Administration, Assuming

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.

  Dane Cook

  Yelling, People, Feelings

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• You might be a redneck if your vehicle has a two-tone paint job - primer red and primer gray.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Jobs, Redneck, Two

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