Quotes About Nuance

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

But being in the middle of it, it wasn't that obvious.

It wasn't nothing, but it wasn't everything either.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.

neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

It was one of those British phrases, along with 'May I help you?', that can be either exceedingly polite or hugely aggressive.

A picture neither saddening nor gladdening I fear; neither beautiful nor ugly.

that which is subtle can be more powerful.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

Why does a writer labor over nuance and context if it won't be respected, if a critic insists on ignoring the writing at hand in favor of a more convenient analysis of his or her own particular pet peeves and straw men?

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

You especially want to strive for that nuance on a show like 'The Flash,' which is different from 'Legends' in the sense that it's really, at its heart, a smaller show. It's a more intimate show, in a way.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.

I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

The framing of how we relate to each other within and across social media platforms will continue to become more sophisticated and nuanced in their expression of how we structure our relationships in our real world lives.

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.