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Quotes About Specific

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
~ Lorrie Moore
What drew me to 'Beautiful Creatures' was the character that I get to play, Ethan. Within three pages, I knew he is so specific and interesting.
~ Alden Ehrenreich
I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
~ Famke Janssen
Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.
~ Marcus Buckingham
Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room.
~ Danny Elfman
It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.
~ Sofia Vergara
Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
~ Ralph Merkle
The older I get, for me it's about fear. If I read something and it scares the hell out of me, that's what I want to do. If it's a challenge and a massive risk and I'm going out on a limb ... those are the ones I want. And they are few and far between. I don't work very much because I'm very specific about what I want to do.
~ Alaina Huffman
When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.
~ Rudolf Steiner
The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space.
~ Ethan Zuckerman
I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'
~ Melissa Fumero
Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.
~ Amy Sherman-Palladino
The bedrock foundation of any rational immigration policy should be to benefit America rather than benefiting potential or existing immigrants, or any other specific group, whether favorable or antagonistic to them.
~ Robert Zubrin
The next frontier in nutrition will be about reconfiguring diets according to individual specific physiology, lifestyle, and health goals.
~ Denise Morrison
All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.
~ Henry Louis Gates
For dramas, I've become more careful because now there are specific works that you think of when you hear the name Song Hye-kyo.
~ Song Hye-kyo
RNase H is a specific RNase that will cleave the RNA of a DNA/RNA duplex.
~ Carol W. Greider
I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
~ Natsuki Takaya
Ever since I did 'Hamilton' I'm really specific with the projects that I choose and the characters I choose and how they're portrayed. I was meaningful with my craft before, but I think after doing something that can change people, the direction in how I go within this business has changed too.
~ Jasmine Cephas Jones
The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater.
~ Liev Schreiber
I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.
~ Chuck Hagel
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
~ Sidney Altman
The sexy moments for me, I wasn't thinking of them as sexy. I was thinking of them as more specific to my character. So it was necessary for my character's development in the movie, so that's how I played it.
~ Michelle Trachtenberg