Quotes About Nuance

There is a reductive nature to the Internet, and it's not limited to comic book news sites and stuff: it's everybody. There is a reductive nature of it, by which anything that's said very quickly gets reduced down to the next. Reduced, reduced, reduced to the point where rumors with some sense of nuance to them just become fact.

It's stupid to have a simple-minded view.

What Democrats call 'nuanced', most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

It's important that comedians talk about difficult and dangerous subjects; you have to be very careful that you don't just hear the subject heading and think, oh, this is bad, they shouldn't be talking about that. You have to hear what's being said.

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

I was the most subtle person in the world.

Soccer can be very subtle; it's a very nuanced sport. If I happen to make things easy and people don't see it, that could be a reason why someone might stand out more than I do. But that's just the way I've grown up playing the game.

I get really excited when I see filmmakers make something that is subtle and feels real. It is really tough to do right.

I'm almost sometimes too subtle in my acting.

I learnt to keep my acting subtle.

I think you can say so much about a character in lots of subtle ways.

I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.

We can bring it all down to the subtleties of the shifting of an eye because we know the camera will catch it. That has been a great thing to learn, and it makes it interesting for a guy who has been in it as long as I have.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

I like subtlety, blending in as opposed to screaming out 'look at me' with the way I dress.

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.

Really, subtlety is what is really important to me and my work.

Little things like language don't get in the way of a really good fillum.

Schönheit haftet nicht den Dingen an, sondern liegt im Helldunkel, im Schattenspiel, das sich zwischen den Dingen entfaltet, sagt der Dichter Tanizaki Junichiro. Und ich denke, es ist tatsächlich so, dass die Dinge sich für uns jeweils anders abschatten. Erst in unserem Blick, der immer auch aus einer bestimmten Perspektive, einer Geneigtheit kommt, werden sie schön.