When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of… — Carl Maria von Weber Copy Share Image
I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I record cello Etudes that are fewer than four minutes long and post them on YouTube. How can one execute fully-formed ideas… — Joshua Roman Copy Share Image
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
I got a call from a mutual friend of ours, Charles King, who's also the executive producer. [Steven Caple Jr and I]… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer… — Bruce Hoffman Copy Share Image
It's only when it's smoothed out by history and we try to make sense of it - this incredibly complicated period when… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
There is a reality to the way the actors play the scenes, given that there is a real, animatronic, moving robot in… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share Image
In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just… — Graham Parker Copy Share Image
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I'm more interested in looking at how things change over… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures,… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I… — Sarah Dunant Copy Share Image
I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand,… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
The guitar, by its very nature, the nature of its sound, by the soft nuance of its powerful and ancient voice, by… — Pepe Romero Copy Share Image
What unnerves so many liberals about talk radio? Simple: It's the unapologetic nature of the conversation, the unwavering sense of certainty. Where's… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
You cannot do everything you want with the 3D camera, it's too big, and the digital quality of those cameras is a… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
I definitely wanted to pay homage to what he did and use his performance in the first one as a foundation. But,… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
“My pawing over the ancients and semi-ancients has been one struggle to find out what has been done, once and for all,… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I know why I make films -cinema is a mode of expression that allows you to express all the nuances of a… — Catherine Breillat Copy Share Image
The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is...you have… — Irvin Kershner Copy Share Image
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
To me representing clairvoyance, how was I going to achieve that, how I was going to capture that? For me, it all… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
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