I like comedy that's very specific and isn't afraid to lose people through its specificity. — Josh Gondelman 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will… — David Schwimmer 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
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
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
In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can… — Martinus Beijerinck Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems with the definition of autism is we keep expanding it. It started as "early infantile autism",… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly -- a language that requires no words --… — Thomas Campbell 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
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
I think references, where they fit organically, are great. It's great to do a show that's real and relatable, and so much… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“When you are able to overcome distractions, then you will be able to do something more specific, something more precise and definite… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I mean, on virtually every major issue before this country that is the natural purview of the federal government, it's important to… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“Education has a social specificity of its own that centres on the conditions for the acquisition of knowledge that can never be… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
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