Details Quotes - Page 12

• The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so perfectly thought of, what wouldn't be here? That's a lost art.

  Sandra Bullock

  Art, Character, Clothes

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• I think that [having not a lot of time sweating the details] can be both a strength and a weakness. I think it depends on how [Donald Trump] approaches it. If it gives him fresh eyes, then that can be valuable. But it also requires you knowing what you don't know and putting in place people who do have the kinds of experience and background and knowledge that can inform good decision making.

  Barack Obama

  Eye, Thinking, Knowing

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• One of the big problems we have in this country is that not enough people understand how important it is to save, understand the details of credit card statements, to be able to compare different APRs and the like. I support the idea.

  George Osborne

  Country, Ideas, People

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

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• I like to bring a certain sense of humanity and detail to my work, and watercolor allows me to do that. I have fascination and wonder about the line and transparent quality or properties in watercolor. I use watercolor to give voice to what I would like to talk about.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Voice, Giving, Humanity

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Details Of Life, People, Events

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face, or consider, or experience, that I talk about with my friends and brothers. It's universal stuff, told in my own voice, my own details and truth, which is all I have to offer.

  Anne Lamott

  Brother, Writing, Voice

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• My best friends when I was young were always doctors. I used to dress up in a white gauze helmet and go round and see babies born and cadavers cut open. This fascinated me, but I could never bring myself to disciplining myself to the point where I could learn all the details that one has to learn to be a good doctor. This is the sort of opposition: somebody who deals directly with human experiences, is able to cure, to mend, to help, this sort of thing.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Cutting, Doctors

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Reality, Leader, Political

  Source: anniepaul.net

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• I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details.

  Robert James Thomson

  Maps, Online, Elevators

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.

  Bill Gates

  Book, Writing, Scratches

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• I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

  Chali 2na

  Art, Trying, Attention

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that is totally vague, almost devoid of details that consists in one person going on a walk. And as a consequence, there is a necessary tension between the determinacy and indeterminacy, the definite and the indefinite, of possibility.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Play, Theatre, Imagine

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you are dealing with approximately two-plus hours every few years to do a story, you don't have the luxury of having excessive screen time to explore, in detail and in-depth, lots of other subsidiary or ancillary supporting characters.

  Michael Uslan

  Character, Years, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm tempted to do everything. And sometimes I think, "Oh, come on. You can stick that detail somewhere."

  Jim Shepard

  Thinking, Sticks, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.

  Sarah Stillman

  Space, Listening, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail.

  Lily King

  Stories, Pages, Given

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect. I wanted to show readers that the larger politics of war and economics and U.S. foreign policy are inextricably bound to the supposedly trivial details of our everyday lives.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Real, War, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I use a lot of specific places in my songs - traditionally, a lot from Minneapolis and St. Paul, where I grew up. Most people, especially when you get into international touring, have not been there. So you say, "Well, isn't it risky to talk about the corner of Franklin Avenue and Lyndale?" If you do it right, someone should say, "God, I know a corner like that." Offering specific details to describe something universal.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Offering, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I remember the first day I was looking at my hands and I thought about my nails. People wouldn't really be paying attention to that, but a Civil War doctor - What would they be doing with their nails? Would they cut them really low? And Dr. Burns said, "No, they would let them grow out so they can scoop stuff out. They would use their nails." So for a while I let my nails grow. They were too long. I kept stabbing myself by accident, so I cut them down, but I was trying to be faithful to the details.

  Josh Radnor

  War, Cutting, Doctors

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• A lot more people will want to hear a 5-minute singing cartoon about Communism in China than will want to read that PhD thesis, and that's the power of it even if a lot of details will be missing - that's the reason something like that often has more impact on society.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Impact, People, Missing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

  Rita Dove

  Intimate Moments, Hinges, Our Lives

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• After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable: from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.‎

  Charles Darwin

  Hope, Hard Work, Science

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.3038, Delphi Classics

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• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  L. Sprague de Camp

  Writing, Character, Story Writers

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• A story contained in the family lore of Brigham Young's descendants illustrates the submissive nature of humility. It recounts that in a public meeting the Prophet Joseph, possibly as a test, sternly rebuked Brigham Young for something he had done or something he was supposed to have done but hadn't - the detail is unclear. When Joseph finished the rebuke, everyone in the room waited for Brigham Young's response. This powerful man, later known as the Lion of the Lord, in a voice everyone could tell was sincere, said simply and humbly, "Joseph, what do you want me to do?"

  Truman G. Madsen

  Powerful, Humility, Men

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