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I've always gone for the more understated look. -- Nancy Reagan
Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated. -- Bob Riley
People that complete other people's vision are understated. -- Bjork
My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen. -- Bret McKenzie
I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing. -- Sade Adu
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. -- Jim Rohn
Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants. -- Vera Wang
Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing. -- Padma Lakshmi
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch? -- Lara St. John
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...so many great truths must be very gently introduced, with voices soft and the truths themselves understated. -- Neale Donald Walsch
The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts. -- Christopher Reeve
But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated. -- Simon Schama
I think it's so much sexier to be understated. It's more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way. -- Emma Watson
Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels. -- Iris Apfel
I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it's done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention. -- Demetri Martin
I'm designing what I want. If it's a man's coat with a pair of skinny-leg jeans, I'll do that. It's whatever my mood is. But it's about style, and it's about an understated taste that's cool. -- Ralph Lauren
The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora. -- Tom Robbins
I think spending a lot of time with my mom, who's a talker and a storyteller, and my dad, who has kind of a soft-spoken, understated sense of humor, I think that's how I became what I am, which is sort of an understated storyteller. -- Mike Birbiglia
Part of our brand is that we're pretty understated in what we do. If you look at other technology companies, they might preannounce things, and it will be a couple years before they really happen, and they don't happen in the way they said they would. -- Larry Page
An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen to the Quakers, it celebrates natural materials and clean, functional expressions, such as are found in many of the hand-made arts and crafts from this community. -- Duane Elgin
Nobody is here without a reason. ... I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it. -- Lily Tomlin
Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated. -- Kate Winslet
What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar. -- Edie Campbell
Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera. -- David Lauren
Kabuki is the way that I so often write; Noh is how I would write if I were more 'spiritual,' more understated, or perhaps just older. -- William T. Vollmann
Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur. -- Teju Cole
The writer of 'The Red Road,' Aaron Guzikowski, deserves the credit. The fact that the dialogue is so understated is what makes this show so appealing, especially as an actor. -- Martin Henderson
My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices. -- Laurie Graham
The casting of 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a dream. Anil Kapoor, as the sleazy TV host, diamonds winking in his earlobes, has never been better; the quietly understated Irrfan Khan turns in another bravura performance as the police inspector whose questioning brings out Jamal's story. -- Shashi Tharoor
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated. -- Warren Buffett
Exceptional is too understated for you. I'll have to search for a better word. (Carlos) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey. -- Simon Weston
The number of maternal deaths is significantly understated because of a lack of effective data collection both in the US and around the world. -- Robin Lim
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There's one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it's no longer Black Sabbath. -- Henry Rollins

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