Nuance famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.
-- Alexei Sayle -
In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.
-- Alicia Vikander -
Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.
-- Anne Rice -
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
-- Bernard Pivot -
I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.
-- Carrie Mae Weems -
Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.
-- Chip Heath -
An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.
-- Chris Cornell -
When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.
-- David Sanborn -
Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.
-- Etty Hillesum -
Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.
-- Graham Joyce -
I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.
-- Hari Kunzru -
The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he is more deeply immersed in his culture and more interested in its meanings.
-- Hortense Powdermaker -
I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.
-- John Wayne -
To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.
-- Mark McKinnon -
When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song
-- Michael Bolton -
To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.
-- Neal Stephenson -
Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.
-- Norman Lamm -
I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy.
-- Paul Harding -
I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.
-- Paul Thomas Anderson -
I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.
-- Robert Ludlum -
We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
-- Robert Schumann -
There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.
-- Tommy Chong -
I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
-- Vera Farmiga -
What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.
-- Vin Diesel -
You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself
-- Warren Buffett -
Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.
-- William Safire -
There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.
-- Woody Allen -
As the writer, you can choose the word that seems best in terms of meaning, nuance, sound, etc. As the translator you are unlikely to find a word in your language that exactly matches, so that you are always making a decision about which meaning or nuance to choose, or emphasize, over the others.
-- Ann Goldstein -
News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.
-- Eliza Griswold -
There are so many elements and nuances from the books that are very hard to tell in the length of a movie.
-- Jade Hassoune -
I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're like to discover.
-- Ray Metzker -
I talk about Breaking Bad being the most brilliant show ever, and even minor characters have subtle nuances and are fully drawn.
-- Zach Anner -
Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.
-- Alvaro Siza Vieira -
Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.
-- Carl Maria von Weber -
To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one’s own style and creatively adjust this to one’s author.
-- Paul Goodman -
The nuances and organic characteristics of a character become second nature if I'm doing my job well.
-- Rob Paulsen -
Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.
-- William Boyd
