Quotes About Nuance

I realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area.

To describe something as being black and white means it is clearly defined. Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear. In fact, it creates a grey area.

There's no black and white in this world; it's all grey. That's what people are like! No one think they're a baddie. Everyone thinks they're trying to do their bit to make the world a better place.

I like to show the grey area in all my characters.

Characters, like people, don't need to be right - only understood and, perhaps, accepted. We are all grey, lighter and darker, depending on our state of security.

I get the feeling that audiences have become mature and they understand that not every character is in black or white. There can be grey shades to it.

I want to play a character with grey shades.

When grey character gets entertaining, the job is done.

I like grey, not black and white. Even the bad creatures, you want to give them a moment where you empathise with them. You realise that what they do isn't so evil.

The great thing about 'Mirzapur' is that no one character is clear black or white, every character is working in a grey shade.

I have no complaints from my characters, be it in 'Commando' or 'Gangs of Wasseypur' everyone on those films was grey.

I don't exactly relate to grey characters.

I get tired of people talking about ''bad words'' and ''bad language''. Bullshit! It's the context that makes them good or bad.

it's not enough just to say "equality" or "responsibility" in a speech, because conservatives and progressives each have their own understanding of what these values mean. You have to talk about your understanding of each of these words.

Remember that there is no ideology of the moderate—no set of views held by all moderates.

It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears - I appreciate the details.

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.

The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.

There are two words for everything.

I know pictures say a thousand words, but they also don't say millions of other words that need to be said.

People are three-dimensional. They're not good or bad. They're not righteous or unrighteous. They are a million different things.

Ultimately, bridging the practice of forensic science and the public's need for story may be difficult. We crave narrative, order from chaos, a mystery solved, good guys winning out over the bad ones. But science, and forensic science, should be more neutral and, thus, more nuanced.

Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.