Quotes About Nuance

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.

Since their playing lacked nuance, they deprived themselves of speech—for nuance, after all, is where meaningful speech resides. Without it, the language of music is ineluctably returned to its postnatal beginnings, where the only sounds to be heard are the inarticulate cries of an infant.

Molly Ringwald's characters always had a complex personal life, and I appreciated that.

You might need a little more nuance in personal relationships. Climbing the work ladder is different from climbing the social ladder.

In 'Raabta' I've two personalities to project, and yes, there are distinct shades of grey.

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in.

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.

It felt to me like America was always wanting to resolve things too quickly, without thinking through what the costs and consequences would be and how that affects an individual living in that world. Then as I grew up and went about my life, I think I just got more and more interested in that gray area where things are not so easily quantified.

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.

That's what I love about history - nuance. I don't believe in unalloyed heroes. Everyone's got warts, and everyone's got a surprise side.

I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

It was astonishing how much meaning could be crammed into a single word. How did such words not crumble under their own weight?

When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows.

The best stories have many meanings; their meaning changes as our capacity to understand and appreciate meaning grows.

architect Mies van der Rohe is credited with saying, "God is in the details." Delivering

It's so much easier to live in a world where everything is black and white. I've never done grey before, but I suspect it's one of those things that, tried once, you can never go back.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

I'm always careful in generalising things.

I am not one to seek simple causes.

I'm cautious about a lot of words.

These days, those who criticize the Union government are being labelled as anti-BJP and those praise it as BJP supporters. Isn't there any middle path?

From its very inception, Lenny Letter set out to create a supportive, positive, inclusive space on the Internet that does not shy away from complexity and nuance.

I grew up feeling Israel is very important, and I'm very supportive of Israel. At the same time, I think you can be really supportive of Israel and not look at it as a black-and-white situation.