Details Quotes - Page 4

• I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.

  Lorna Simpson

  Focus, Body, Sexuality

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• I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Mind, May, Individualism

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• What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

  Richard Gurley Drew

  Science, Creative, Research

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• Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself.

  Kathryn Kuhlman

  Jesus, Prayer, Answers

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• If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.

  Charles Jencks

  Dating, Looks, Dinosaurs

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• We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Vision, Stubborn

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• I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How detached the intimate things around me seem from the great world down below. How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground - seconds away - thousands of miles away. This air, stirring mildly around me. That air, rushing by with the speed of a tornado, an inch beyond. These minute details in my cockpit. The grandeur of the world outside. The nearness of death. The longness of life.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Rushing, Space

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• One thing it makes me realize is just how similar we all are, around the globe. The details may be different, but every human heart is touched by themes like hope, comfort and mercy.

  Matt Redman

  Heart, Comfort, Different

  "A conversation with worship leader Matt Redman". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. September 21, 2011.

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• I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Understanding, Covering, Needs

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.118, Penguin

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• Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

  David Byrne

  Drama, Exciting, Stills

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• Dancing is so great because there are all the little details, and the little movements, and the little muscles that are working without you even realizing.

  Julianne Hough

  Dancing, Movement, Littles

  "EXCLUSIVE: Julianne Hough Reveals Her Favorite Exercises for the Best Arms, Legs, Abs and Butt!". Interview with Lauren Zima, Zach Seemayer, www.etonline.com. June 21, 2016.

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• To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Mean, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.199

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• I enjoy learning technical details.

  Ken Follett

  Learning, Enjoy

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. December 15, 2000.

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• Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  World, Culture, Fantasy

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Deep Thought, Victory, Defeat

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• When your show keeps coming back, year after year, you have a responsibility because your fans know your show sometimes better than you do. You can't play games with them. You have to be really focused and concentrated, and play at your best in every department. The writing staff has to be fantastic. Our director line-up has to be great. Everything has to be better and better. Your fans keep track of the details.

  Demian Bichir

  Writing, Responsibility, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's
  part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.

  Jenni Rivera

  Writing, Emotional, Sometimes

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• Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail [in art] may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

  Anton Ehrenzweig

  Art, Symbolism, Important

  "Subliminal Ad-ventures in Erotic Art" by Wilson Bryan Key, Branden Books, (p. 37), 1992.

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• Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sometimes, Forget You, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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• Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Irony, Remember, Persons

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• In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Eye, Description

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1987). “The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings”

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• Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Book, Reading, Talking

  "Lenny Hearts Eunice" by Gary Shteyngart, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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• It's all gravy when everything's great, but if there comes a point where there's a problem, as with any kind of relationship you need to fix it. There's always going to be something, and it could be the smallest detail you'd never have expected or it could be something substantial, but it's how you deal with things.

  Erol Alkan

  Needs, Kind, Problem

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Actually, screenplays were much more detailed than what I did in the book In the book I had to invent a style for communicating what the sensation of looking at a film would be, whereas the screenplays I wrote in Paris were actual blueprints for how to do the film, with every gesture, every little movement noted in exhaustive detail.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Paris, Style

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