I like comedy that's very specific and isn't afraid to lose people through its specificity. — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of. — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Everything that David Chase does has a tremendous amount of specificity. He is very detail oriented. — John Magaro Copy Share Image
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
“In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!" ( Letter to Alexander Chekhov , May 10, 1886)” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group.… — Ross Bleckner Copy Share Image
In some ways, I value specificity. I think that there's power in, once you know who your fan base is, being able… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The iPod has taken away the whole platinum record sales prospect. Sincerity and specificity are going to be the hot commodities in… — Eric Lewis Copy Share Image
If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not that I ever felt the necessity of proving that all human beings suffer the same way, feel joy the same way,… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . .… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries,… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
The kind of sleep that I had during my own film [Certified Copy] screening in Cannes is different. It's not because of… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is… — Leslie Orgel Copy Share Image
“The sky [above Tehran] was like a star-eaten black blanket, and so far as I could read them its constellations were unfamiliar.… — Peter Levi Copy Share Image
“There is a deeper point to be made here, however, having to do with the specificity of everything. One of the great… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Specificity refers to the ability of any medicine to discriminate between its intended target and its host. Killing a cancer cell in… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do. — David Slade Copy Share Image
Each crisis is different, has its own specificities, and we need to look at it critically; look at each one in its… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity. — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I think something that I can't name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate.… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
France has a specificity - the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are… — Xavier Niel Copy Share Image
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