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The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors. -- Cecilia Bartoli
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
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
Nuance doesn't get retweeted. -- James Poniewozik
I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance. -- Lois Lowry
Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich. -- Graham Joyce
Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most. -- Clement Mok
Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion. -- Barney Frank
I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior. -- Robert Ludlum
The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance. -- Arthur Smith
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties. -- Bernard Pivot
I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful. -- Mark McKinnon
Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods. -- Emeril Lagasse
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
Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped. -- Vladimir Nabokov
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance. -- Don Cheadle
I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it. -- Cy Twombly
'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would. -- John McWhorter
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
If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals. -- Pico Iyer
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
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance. -- Galina Vishnevskaya
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
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
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that. -- Paul Schrader
For people that don't have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don't want to analyze... those aren't the people I romanticize about dressing. -- Marc Jacobs
Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of systemic discrimination and abuse faced by disabled people. -- Stella Young
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
For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul. -- Yves Klein
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
For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul. -- Yves Klein
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. -- Auguste Rodin
At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character. -- Joshua Waitzkin
Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different. -- Lewis Grizzard
When you watch the subtitled version you are probably missing just as many things. There is a layer and a nuance you're not going to get. Film crosses so many borders these days. Of course it is going to be distorted. -- Hayao Miyazaki
Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book. -- Cynthia Heimel
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present. -- Colm Toibin
I record cello Etudes that are fewer than four minutes long and post them on YouTube. How can one execute fully-formed ideas with utmost perfection, yet stay free enough to allow improvisatory nuance? This has immediate application in almost every area of life, but especially in performance. -- Joshua Roman
There are no moral lectures in 'Lookaway, Lookaway;' there aren't even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance. -- Cathleen Schine
I'm looking forward to some more solo acoustic dates. That's a lot of fun for me, because I get to be alone with the song. And I get to hear every little nuance; if my instrument does something that I wasn't expecting, I get to chase that. Chase that down a little bit. -- Bob Weir
Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come. -- Joseph Campbell
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A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing. -- Henry Hazlitt
We're living in post-nuance online times. -- Jon Ronson
To condense fact from the vapor of nuance. -- Neal Stephenson
An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified. -- Chris Cornell
I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance. -- Beeban Kidron
Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile. -- Edward Abbey
In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance. -- Michael Haneke
I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it. -- Luke Temple
I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty. -- Craig M. Mullaney
...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness. -- Jasper Fforde
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
Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance. -- David Burge
I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years. -- Lake Bell
History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice. -- Tracy K. Smith
Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing. -- Glen Duncan
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
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
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. -- William Carlos Williams
It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel. -- Ben Mendelsohn
LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to do it the way you normally would. -- John McWhorter
Online journalism has rendered us all news wire hacks - get it posted fast, forget about context or nuance or interpretation, and errors will be fixed on the fly. -- Rosie DiManno
Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?' -- Carl Sandburg
I'm not someone who doesn't want to see the films, but I like to see them as an end product when the whole nuance of the character is put together. -- Juno Temple
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
Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action. -- Greg Thomas
On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount of nuance until the film becomes sentient and gives back. -- Gore Verbinski
The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle when they refrain from grabbing the listener by the shirt. -- Dave Barry
Writers have to be observant. Every nuance, every inflection in a voice, the quality of air, even - they all get mixed up in this soup of the story developing in our minds. -- Susan Vreeland
In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance. -- Graham Parker
...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience. -- Peter Block
Kevin Kline gives a master class in acting. He finds every nuance of mirth and melancholy in this wonder of a role and rides it to glory. You can't take your eyes off him. -- Peter Travers
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 love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them. -- C. J. Box
There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and not just reactively, and whose approach is multi-faceted. We need more "useful photographers." -- Fred Ritchin

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