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• I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock, and Jimi Hendrix is one of my favorite artists. My favorite song is 'Red House,' because it's heavy on the blues.

  Marisa Miller

  Song, Artist, Rocks

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• I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

  Michelle Obama

  Tired, Thinking, People

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• If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

  Joel Osteen

  Devil, Ifs

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• The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

  Alexander Payne

  Important, Actors, Film

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• I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Voice, Understanding

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• And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.

  Jason Reitman

  Moving, Blue, People

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• Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it's not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don't want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it's not unhealthy, so I'm going to rock with it.

  Rihanna

  Sexy, Book, Holiday

  "Rihanna: Living Out Loud". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. March 16, 2011.

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• In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Views, Presidential, Decision

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

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• When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

  Todd Solondz

  Real, People, Want

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.

  Danielle Steel

  Voice, People, Needs

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• You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.

  Kristen Stewart

  Strong, Emotional, People

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• Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

  John Sununu

  Should Have, Discipline, Wish

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• I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

  Steve Vai

  Independent, Artist, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

  George Will

  Space, Work Out, Mind

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• I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.

  E. O. Wilson

  Character, People, Quality

  "EO Wilson: Our Greatest Biologist Writes A Novel, ‘Anthill’". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.

  James Wolcott

  Thinking, Islands, President

  "What’s Wrong With Washington?" by James Wolcott, www.vanityfair.com. May 2009.

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• Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

  Helen Fisher

  Reading, Voice, Matter

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• My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

  John Oliver

  Sound, Vowels, London

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• While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.

  Colm Toibin

  Lying, Intelligent, Self

  "History students will no longer tolerate or believe grand narratives" by Colm Toibin, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

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• I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wall, Home, Men

  "On Fairy-Stories". Andrew Lang Lecture at the University of St. Andrews on March 08, 1939. "Essays presented to Charles Williams", 1947.

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• Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?

  Neil Postman

  Laughter, Sea, Voice

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• Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

  John Ralston Saul

  Government, Morality, Ethical

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/ of a woman's voice; others prefer/ simply to gaze upon me, my face/ turned from them as they touch/ only themselves. And then there are those,/ of course, whose desires I cannot commit/ to paper.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Men, Voice, Desire

  Natasha Trethewey (2002). “Bellocq's Ophelia: Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

  E. B. White

  Country, Design, Attention

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.139, Cornell University Press

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• Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt.

  Emily Bronte

  Eye, Tears, Despair

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.480, Penguin

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