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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.”

Writing Faces Stuff Voice My Own Brother Offers My Friends Universal Philosopher Details

Author:Anne Lamott

“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.”

Giving Use Certain Humanity Voice Lines Quality Wonder Property Details Fascination Transparent Watercolors

Author:Jerry Pinkney

“People are infinitely more interesting than characters that I come up with. Because the characters I come up with are basically combinations of people I've met. Combinations. You select certain details, that's all.”

People Character Certain Interesting Mets Come Up Details Combination Select

Author:Sarnath Banerjee

“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.”

People Stories Bigs Events Details Relevant Not Interested Big Things Big Events Details Of Life

Author:Sarnath Banerjee

“It it's true that fastidiousness and attention to detail is very much in my genes - if you knew my parents, you'd see that this is something I've inherited, only doubly so.”

Ifs Parent Attention Details Genes Attention To Detail

Author:George Benjamin

“To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring back the words or the poetry or the lines of thought. Memory's going extinct because we rely on machines and copies and so on. The idea of working with structures that conjure dreams, personages, history, time, that can be contained in this way as you walk through your mind, is a challenge.”

Way Mind Ideas Dream Challenges Lines Memories Walks Particular Machines Structure Details Rely Copies

Author:Anne Waldman

“I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.”

Humans Development Conscious Details Portions Inability Human Knowledge

Book:The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

“If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.”

Ifs Trying Littles Would Be Tree Missing Details Drawing Forests Outlines

Author:Jeff Koons

“Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.”

Ifs Way Happens Asks Answers Drama Historical Details Things Happen Accuracy Paramount

Author:Tony Kushner

“Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.”

Humans Affair Details Providence Generalities

Book:Memoirs of Celebrated Characters

Source: Memoirs of Celebrated Characters

“All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!”

World Firsts Failing Details Architecture Conception Alas Ornaments Revision

Author:T. E. Lawrence

“The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.”

Art Self Literature Minutes Silent Details Motherhood Devotion Denial Self-denial

Author:Honore de Balzac

“How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.”

People Doe Actors Directors Details Movie

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.”

Humans Children Running House Creative Thousand Normal Details Occupation Feeding Human Relationships Contemplative Creative Life Contemplative Life

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”

People Knows Forget Details Private Life Superpower Invisibility

Author:Banksy

“I'm very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I'm really concentrated.”

Light Creativity Morning Details Dedication

Author:Christian Louboutin

“When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.”

Body Remains Intention Shoes Details Curvy

Author:Christian Louboutin

“All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.”

Perfect Fate Details Smallest Doomed Not Perfect

Author:Gustav Mahler

“I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.”

Self Form Design Expression Details Self Expression

Author:John Malkovich

“'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.”

Writing Philosophy Shows Pieces Details Scope Commentary

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.”

Inspirational Made Dance Details Minors

Book:Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Source: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.”

People Matter Details Geek

Author:Marissa Mayer

“I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.”

Giving Hours Space Watches Information Lessons Program Details Missions One Hour

Author:Christa McAuliffe

“We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.”

Mind Two Soul Care Life Is Emotion Concerned Details Your Soul Inner Life Two Lives Soul Life

Author:Joyce Meyer

“It's reached this point where people are fascinated by every intricate detail of other people's lives. And some people are willing to give up their lives like that.”

People Giving Willing Giving Up Details Fascinated Intricate

Author:Sienna Miller

“Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.”

Important Names Numbers Company Details Internals Telephones Garbage Hackers Jargon Garbage Cans

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.”

Ifs Want Asks Hero Paid Details My Hero

Author:Moby

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

Details Hearing Diaries

Author:Taylor Momsen

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

Way Special Scene Details Speed Tension Prose

Author:Robert Morgan

“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.”

Important Beautiful Yeah Details Ties Suspects Thrilling Informative

Author:Mark Morris

“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”

Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris

“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.”

Long Self Done Stories Night Focus Pieces Needed Discipline Performances Details Theatre Leap Self Discipline Leap Of Faith Small Pieces Movie Making

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“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!”

Knows Want Wells Said Names Space Creative Involved Majors Red Okay Details I Realized Flags Input Red Flags Rue Louvre

Author:Kate Moss

“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.”

Moments Eye Artist Memories Painting Simplicity Details Impression Emptiness

Author:Edvard Munch

“Caress the detail, the divine detail.”

Spirit Religion Spirituality Divine Chaos Details Complexity Caress

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“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.”

Stills War Hard States Harder Including Details Submit Exceed Loathing Loathe Bloodshed Massacres Administrative Totalitarian State

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“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.”

Knows Class Teach Taught Intelligent Details

Book:Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

Source: Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

“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.”

Ifs Should Writing Song Goal Details Memoir

Author:Conor Oberst

“I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.”

Hands Pay Attention Details Pay Attention Freak Control Freak Attention To Detail

Author:Victoria Beckham

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

Stories Literature Wind Soldier Details Wounds Sheep Bulls Shepherds Seamen

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.”

People Thinking Doe Whole Pain Particular Painting Opposites Details Peaches

Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“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.”

Mind Art Certain Literature Language Painting Depends Details Appeals Visuals Faculty Sculpture Auditory

Author:Steven Pinker

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

Mind Leadership Leader Details Productivity Neglect Distracted Vigilant

Author:Colin Powell

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

Ifs Mistake Reader Details Careful Call Me Be Careful

Author:Rick Riordan

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

Book Details

Author:Emma Roberts

“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.”

Persons Remember Happened Details Irony

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Real Memories Attention Organization Details Attention To Detail Upkeep

Author:David Lee Roth

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

World Details Atmosphere Surrealism

Author:Salman Rushdie

“At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its minutest details. For one short instant the personal becomes one with the individual and all-knowing ego. But this instant is enough to show to him the whole chain of causes which have been at work during his life.”

Men Has Beens Enough Whole Moments Shows Past Individual Causes Knowing Ego Details Every Man Chains Instant Solemn Past Life

Book:Death and After?

Source: Death and After?

“We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.”

Thinking Ideas Home House My Own Wife Masters Theory Husband Authority Difficulty Ill Details Pairs My Husband Arrangements Precise Submission Matched Methodical

Book:Annie Besant: An Autobiography

Source: Annie Besant: An Autobiography

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