Quotes About Nuance

I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.

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A large vocabulary is like an artist having a big palette of colors. We don't have to use all the colors in a single painting, but it helps to be able to find just the right shade when we need it.

People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.

Shows like 'Superstore' and certainly 'Pose' are leading the way and showing queer people of color in a much more complex, nuanced light that we've never seen.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

It's taken me quite some time to convince people that I can do shades of grey, and I've finally broken that ground.

You just touch on things. You don't go round the room describing the furniture.

It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.

I don't love to generalize, because I think every person has bad and good in them.

I don't want a performance to give me everything. You can look at Charlotte Rampling in '45 Years,' and you don't really know what she's thinking, but you know something interesting is happening.

We always want to find good and bad guys, and I don't believe in that.

Everything has good and bad.

The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

I love playing roles where it's not just the good guy or the bad guy.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

I think cliche is a good thing sometimes.

people are complicated; you can't label 'em with a word.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No.

Those who call black black and white white are sentenced for intolerance. Only the grays live.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.