Meticulous Quotes - Page 2

• When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's rehearsed. I mean, you have no idea.

  Rob Marshall

  Mean, Ideas, Pieces

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I like being meticulous and it's quite difficult as an actor to have that much control.

  Robert Pattinson

  Actors, Being Me, Difficult

  Source: collider.com

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• It has always struck me as the world's great fortune that the two great superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union, who managed the Cold War with meticulous care in retrospect. Imagine the European diplomats of 1914 or 1938 armed with nuclear weapons. It is easy to believe they would not have been as cautious.

  George Friedman

  War, Believe, Two

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• A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency.

  Italo Calvino

  Feelings, Intuition, Ephemeral

  Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron, cicada, spider, catalpa tree, mockingbird, snail, cormorant, and others. These pitch-perfect poems are written with a delicate, meticulous attention to craft and music. Like the joy she takes in her subjects, this collection is a joy to read.

  Elizabeth Spires

  Summer, White, Perfect

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• Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

  Chuck Eddy

  School, Hawthorne, Pops

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• You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Preparation, Spirit, Holy

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2012). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• I've directed bits of action and so I know that it's long and it's very detailed. Editing action is a good deal more exciting than shooting action. Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

  Sam Mendes

  Editing, Long, Pieces

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• She once said, 'I'm really a little prudish, which people may think incongruous'. I take a prudish point of view on certain films, books, and trends. Then, I pull myself up short and ask myself how Gypsy Rose Lee could possibly be this way.I thought that quote was so telling, a key insight into the way she so carefully separated who she was from her meticulous creation.

  Karen Abbott

  Book, Thinking, Keys

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going to HQ at Schleswig in my 'Grand Charles.' Coming back I had taken him high up in the cloudless summer sky, for it was only there that I could fittingly take my leave. Together we climbed for the last time straight towards the sun. We looped once, perhaps twice, we lovingly did a few slow, meticulous rolls, so that I could take away in my finger-tips the vibration of his supple, docile wings.

  Pierre Clostermann

  Summer, Morning, Farewell

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• I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel so defeated.

  Questlove

  Art, Hate, Fonts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at Absolute Beauty.

  Peter Shaffer

  Fall, Ink, Would Be

  "Amadeus". Play by Peter Shaffer, November 2, 1979.

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• The spirit of my films... I always want them to be kind of contrarian. Meticulous on the one hand, but unbelievably sloppy and careless on the other. I guess that's what you get anyway, if you're not planning very much.

  Guy Maddin

  Hands, Be Kind, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It was really executed well, from the art direction to the wardrobe to everyone else. And I have to say, two really exceptional directors who did three each. Roxann [Dawson] did the first three and Jeremy [Webb] did the second three. And I think they really were very meticulous in getting the right tone because it is both. It isn't dour and it isn't grim, but it's not a romp either. It's truthful and it has room for both of those things.

  Gary Cole

  Art, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I've done animated TV stuff, but I'd never done animated film work, which is much more involved and much more labor intensive. The animators are much more meticulous and detailed. It's just been really fun and really satisfyingly creative.

  Ty Burrell

  Fun, Creative, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• Art is a means of memorialization of the past, a record of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least temporarily, the ravages of homesickness. To speak of 'what is past, or passing or to come'-in the most meticulous language thereby to assure its permanence; to honor those we've loved and learned from and must outlive.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Mean, Past

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• If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils, agates, and carcasses in every stage of decay. Though it was water that initially shaped the state, wind is the meticulous gardener, raising dust and pruning the sage.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Dust, Wind, Wyoming

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• My job as a pastor and theologian is to tease out the nature and the necessity of the gospel in meticulous ways, in everything I say, in everything I like. I want desperately for the church in America to rediscover the power and the beauty and the nature and the necessity of the gospel.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jobs, America, Church

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Exclusive interview: Ashton Kutcher talks Steve Jobs". Interview With Jon Frosch, www.france24.com. August 17, 2013.

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• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool.

  T. S. Eliot

  Two, Doubt, Progress

  Prufrock (1917) "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

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• If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Ignorance, Light, Intellectual

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• It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.

  Marisha Pessl

  Character, Leaks, Spilling

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.201, Penguin

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• Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin does not amaze me. I am amazed when I drop a glove in the street and a teenager runs two blocks to return it. I am amazed when a checkout girl flashes me a wide smile with my change, though my own face had been a mask of expedience. Lost wallets posted to their owners, strangers who furnish meticulous directions, neighbors who water each other's houseplants - these things amaze me.

  Lionel Shriver

  Girl, Running, Children

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.250, Profile Books

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• I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate novel about the young women of modern America, their friendships, their betrayals, and their anxious cravings for everything from sex to pastry.

  Jim Crace

  Sex, Betrayal, Men

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• Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into the past and as far afield as the Great Wall of China. With the restless curiosity and meticulous scholarship that have become her hallmark, the author once again has found a gap in my bookshelf and filled it, admirably.

  Steven Saylor

  Wall, Past, Reality

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