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“I've always played down the drama in my films. In my main scenes, there's never an opportunity for an actor to let go of everything he's got inside. I always try to tone down the acting, because my stories demand it, to the point where I might change a script so that an actor has no opportunity to come out well.”

Author:Irvine Welsh

“If you have a tone like mine that is recognizable. No matter what I play, when you hear my tone you can tell it's me.”

Ifs Matter Play Mines No Matter What Tone

Author:Miles Davis

“Japanese people they hear my warmin' up and they start screamin'. They can tell it's me.It's my tone on the trumpet, it sounds like I'm speakin'.”

People Sound Tone Trumpets

Author:Miles Davis

“The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and what the language is; not just the last sentence, but enough of the sentences surrounding that last sentence to know what the tone of voice is. I imagined it as something almost musical. Then you are writing toward something; you know the sound of your voice at the end of the story. That's how you want to sound in those final sentences: the degree that it is uplifting or not, the degree that it is melancholic or not.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing I Can Book Ends Enough Stories Happens Lasts Language Sound Voice Degrees Finals Musical Sentences Uplifting Tone

Author:John Irving

“Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.”

Mind Body Effort Periods Tone Laziness Mind And Body Energetic

Author:Grenville Kleiser

“Tone can be as important as text.”

Important Tone

Author:Ed Koch

“You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!”

Ifs Use Body Sports Can Do Hours Exercise Bigger Your Body Fats Firm Tone Muscles Tape Vigorous Calories

Author:Jack LaLanne

“As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.”

Long Character Shows Running Jobs Fun Tone Really Great Format Great Job

Author:Alan Ball

“Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.”

Rocks Reactions Noise Tone Feedback Acid Acoustics

Author:Lester Bangs

“I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.”

Looks Matter Picks Areas Work Out Hips Tone Muscles

Author:Tyra Banks

“Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.”

Feelings Fall Sound Emotion Noise Tone Capture Falling Down Drones Staircases Accordions

Author:John Lydon

“The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show.”

Ifs Way Writing Looks Kind Character Shows Moving Guy Next Bits Ease Tone Fluid Jerk Like Family Family Guy Disney Character

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.”

Play Whole Numbers Tone Orchestra Fullness Selected Clarinet

Author:Gustav Mahler

“Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms.”

Values Voice Term Communicate Core Brands Tone Consistently Core Values

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.”

Should Children Language Parent Quiet Argument Tone Respectful Foreign Language

Book:Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

Source: Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

“The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.”

Want Looks Wanted One Thing Diets Tone Playboy Voluptuous Anorexics

Author:Jenny McCarthy

“A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.”

Social Members Occasions Tone Ritual Indifferent Blueprints Specifications Every Occasion

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock, and Jimi Hendrix is one of my favorite artists. My favorite song is 'Red House,' because it's heavy on the blues.”

Artist Song House Rocks Red My Favorite Heavy Mood Tone Hendrix Favorite Song Favorite Artist

Author:Marisa Miller

“First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.”

World Should Firsts Wells Body Voice Silence This World Drink Solitude Speech Anxiety Should Have Possession Tone Modesty Monk Food And Drink

Author:Saint Basil

“The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.”

Writing Mind Character Chance Greater Tone Reincarnation Gifted Talkative

Book:Strong opinions

Source: Strong opinions

“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”

Has Beens Ideas Voice Accepting Relationship Refuse Tone Power Of Ideas Unsympathetic

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.”

Opinion Argument Tone

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.”

People Thinking Want Kind Tired Tone

Author:Michelle Obama

“If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.”

Ifs Devil Tone

Author:Joel Osteen

“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”

Sound Music Notes Storm Tone

Book:Beethoven: The Man and the Artist

Source: Beethoven: The Man and the Artist

“The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.”

Important Film Actors Tone Components Cinematic Executors

Author:Alexander Payne

“Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.”

Life Mind Might Courses Fantasy Exercise Tone Muscles Bicycle Discworld Fantasy Stories Fantasy Love

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.”

Thinking Trying Littles Certain Humanity Understanding Voice Ready Mark Lays Admire Cards Tone Humane Foibles

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.”

Political Drug Tone

Author:Nancy Reagan

“And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.”

People Film Moving Decision Directors Red Blue Faster Tone Culmination Binary Yes Or No

Author:Jason Reitman

“It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.”

People Want Important Father Careers Dad Tone Copies

Author:Nicole Richie

“Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it's not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don't want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it's not unhealthy, so I'm going to rock with it.”

Ifs Want Feels Firsts Book Body Perfect Rocks Comfortable First Time Sexy I Realized Tone Holiday Curves Not Perfect Unhealthy

Author:Rihanna

“In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.”

Facts Decision Views Being True Presidential Tone Execution

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity.”

Writing Form Names Moral Higher Productions Tone Prophet Latter Finest Testament Old Testament Seventeen Captivity

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.”

Source: Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men

“When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.”

People Want Kind Real Shows Capable Real Life Tone Meanness Mean People Believable Over The Top

Author:Todd Solondz

“If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.”

Ifs Men Want Mind Book Ideas Reason Would Be Judgment Sacred Intellect Tone Testament Emphasis New Testament Credulity Disgusted

Author:Lysander Spooner

“The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.”

Whole Lasts Church Teaching Degrees Regard Tone Aggravation Degrading Contemptuous

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.”

People Needs Humans Voice Messages Tone Warmth Nuance Texting Human Voice Text Message

Author:Danielle Steel

“You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.”

People Ifs Knows Want Littles Sometimes Film Certain Strong Bits Emotional Industry Approach Little Bit Careful Artistic Odd Tone Crew Film Industry

Author:Kristen Stewart

“Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.”

Should Wish Discipline Politician Should Have Tone Cages

Author:John Sununu

“I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.”

Play Artist Nations Records Independent Fingers Albums Labels Tone Arches Record Labels

Author:Steve Vai

“I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.”

World Mind States Lost Space Work Out Innocence Tone Melancholy

Author:George Will

“I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.”

People Character Found Deals Quality Circumstances Communicate Dialogue Tone Dialect

Author:E. O. Wilson

“With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.”

Thinking Firsts President Happenings Remains Barack Islands Tone Tunes Discourse Fever Captives First Lady

Author:James Wolcott

“Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.”

World Economy Setting Settings Tone

Author:Steve Wozniak

“My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.”

Ifs Sound My Family Raised London Tone Accents Liverpool Brits Birmingham Vowels

Author:John Oliver

“While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.”

Knows May Self Lying Waiting Goes On Reader Intelligent Narrative Tone Historian Attempting Defining Sweeping

Author:Colm Toibin

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”

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