Tone Quotes - Page 19

• I had never made a record before, so I didn't know anything about it. I don't know anything about knobs, frequencies, tones.

  Jason Mraz

  Records, Made, Knobs

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• If you look at me in 'Ride Along,' even though I'm playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

  Kevin Hart

  Character, Two, Different

  "Interview with Kevin Hart and Regina Hall, stars of 'About Last Night'". Interview with Tom Santilli, www.axs.com. February 11, 2014.

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• Ballet Beautiful is really good for me, and it doesn't hurt my back, and it's a way for me to kind of get my heart moving and tone every part of my body.

  Erin Heatherton

  Beautiful, Hurt, Moving

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• 1974 meant big cuffs, bell-bottoms, platform shoes with two-tone colors, and body-conscious shirts.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Color, Shoes, Two

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• Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Look at the openings of Fitzgerald stories, and Graham Greene, they're great at this.

  Janet Fitch

  Character, Emotional, Looks

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• I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.

  Lady Gaga

  Fun, Eccentric, Freak

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• We don't have time for tone. We have to go out and get the job done.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Done, Get The Job Done

  GOP debate, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!

  Napoleon Hill

  Character, Eye, Men

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• It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.

  Napoleon Hill

  Teaching, Lasting Impressions, Public Speaking

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• How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simple human language. With what a sigh of relief one leaves this world of cassocks, and kissing and church gossip. As soon as one leaves, one sees: wet bare branches, fog which floats over fields, trees, homes. Sky. Early dusk. And it all tells an incredibly simple truth.

  Alexander Schmemann

  Home, Kissing, Simple

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• Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable from it in the mind of its creator and native to it from the hour of its birth.

  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  Color, Soul, Mind

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• Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Integrity, Sacrifice, Discipline

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.446, Zondervan

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• Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is simply a miniature of the original music, which is creation itself, expressed in tone and rhythm.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Reality, Creation, Music Is

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• The (campaign) ads all have the same tone - the voice is hushed and amazed when talking about The Enemy, as if you should worry how this amoral, power-mad, extremist puppy-strangler clawed his way out of hell and landed in your district. And the voice is happy and relieved when talking about The Most Noble Candidate, as though he's Santa, Will Rogers and Lincoln all rolled into one.

  James Lileks

  Talking, Voice, Mad

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• When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone that will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.

  Esther Hicks

  Attitude, Past, Simple

  "Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness". Book by Esther Hicks and Jerry Hicks, 2008.

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• I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system; tones you up.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Believe, Thinking

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• I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, Musician, Sound

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Different

  Paul Auster, James M. Hutchisson (2013). “Conversations with Paul Auster”, p.199, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, People, Stories

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I think tone gives birth to the story.

  Etgar Keret

  Thinking, Giving, Stories

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I'm speaking to someone I'm trying to get to fall in love with me. I'm trying to speak intimately to one person. That should be clear. I'm not speaking to an audience. I'm not writing for the podium. I'm just writing, trying to write in a fairly quiet tone to one other reader who is by herself, or himself, and I'm trying to interrupt some silence in their life, which is utterance.

  Billy Collins

  Falling In Love, Writing, Silence

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Doe, Truthful, Knows

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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• While a lot of people want to join the left to react against the mainstream or right, I in many ways react against the left - not a lot of its fundamental commitments, but its often dismal tone, righteousness, defeatism, etc.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Commitment, People, Fundamentals

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you look at all the comic book films that have come since then, in terms of tone, in terms of look, even in terms of Danny Elfman's music for Batman, so many that followed have been inspired by that, specifically. It had a cultural impact worldwide.

  Michael Uslan

  Book, Impact, Looks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Book, Want, Pathos

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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