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#subtleties

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As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.


Shelley Berman


#culture #deprived #elevated #i #i see

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?


Kate Chopin


#branches #breathe #chord #detect #ear

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.


Billy Wilder


#audience #clever #make #obvious #subtleties

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.


Khalil Gibran


#characteristics #completely #incumbent #know #knowledge

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.


Conrad Hall


#articulate #attempting #because #cinema #describe

With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.


Conrad Hall


#art #contrast #create #diffusion #exposure

I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.


Camilla Belle


#elegant #embodies #engaging #her #i

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.


Robert Moog


#designs #details #done #effective #electronics

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.


Tommy Lee Jones


#audience #dialogue #instruct #laugh #read

I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.


Rachel Zoe


#i think #sexiness #should #subtleties #think






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