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• My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

  Taylor Momsen

  Diaries, Hearing

  "Iron Maiden". Interview With Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. July 27, 2009.

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• With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

  Robert Morgan

  Special, Way, Speed

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• Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah.

  Mark Morris

  Beautiful, Ties, Important

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• I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Night, Self, Discipline

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• Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they're doing and who's involved. And I want to see the space.' So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre!

  Kate Moss

  Names, Red Flags, Space

  "Kate Moss Muses on 20 Years at the Top". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 2, 2010.

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• Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

  Edvard Munch

  Memories, Eye, Artist

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• Caress the detail, the divine detail.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Religion, Chaos, Spirit

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• It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  War, Loathing, States

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• Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Intelligent, Class, Taught

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.67, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Writing, Goal

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• The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Sheep, Wind, Soldier

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• Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Mind, Sculpture

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• It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

  Henri Poincare

  Order, Giving, Unity

  "Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics". Book by Rahul Sarpeshkar (p. 3), 2010.

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• Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Mind, Neglect

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• I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.

  Rick Riordan

  Mistake, Call Me, Be Careful

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• For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail.

  Emma Roberts

  Book

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• I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

  David Lee Roth

  Memories, Real, Organization

  "Van Halen's David Lee Roth: 'I've always been a show-off' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Mick Brown, www.theguardian.com. 1984.

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• Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

  Salman Rushdie

  Atmosphere, World, Surrealism

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• I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Fiction, Stories

  "This Week in Fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

  Adam Savage

  Light, Magic, Back When

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• I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

  Compay Segundo

  Mistake, Sleep, Night

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• There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

  William Shatner

  Dream, Pain, Responsibility

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• A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

  Sivananda

  Ocean, Water, Mountain

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• If you want to understand any woman you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Stories about food show a strong connection. Wistful silences demonstrate unfinished business. The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.

  Anita Diament

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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• It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.

  Paulo Coelho

  Regret, Warrior, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 16, 2016

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