Quotes About Nuance

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.

What is nice about doing a long-running show is finding a language that gives it some depth.

Designers become translators for me. That's why I've gone to people like Gareth Pugh and Viktor and Rolf - they are speaking a nuanced language. Fashion says a lot for me.

Art is all in the details.

Details matter. They create depth, and depth creates authenticity.

I believe God is in the details.

Football is like that, it's details.

The devil's in the detail and sometimes if you're thinking too big, you can miss the detail.

I'm the kind of person where I look to myself a lot on how I can get better. What little, nuanced differences can I make?

We make too much of the good and too much of the bad.

A nothing that said everything.

No one was ever simply anything

the world was not black and white—it wasn't even gray. It was full of colors that sometimes didn't fit into any spectrum of morality.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. –F. Scott Fitzgerald

Subtlety, that was what was needed. Subtle had never been my natural bent, but I had learned. Eventually.

No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.

Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple

Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

Nearly anything that can be said about Hinduism can be contradicted by something else that is equally true about it, and nothing whatever that is said about it can be entirely true or entirely false

conversation allows us little room to revise our original utterances, which ill suits our tendency not to know what we are trying to say until we have had at least one go at saying it...whereas writing.... is largely made up of rewriting, during which original thoughts- bare inarticulate strands- are enriched and nuanced over time...appear on a page according to the logic and aesthetic order they demand

There is beauty,' she said, 'in the least beautiful of things.

I believe he's a man of great integrity, but he seems to see the world in very black and white. Manichean terms. I personally believe that to be an intellectual limitation.