Subtlety Quotes
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Subtlety set a trap and caught itself.
Latin Proverb
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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci
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[Comedy] demands more timing, pace, shading and subtlety of emphasis. It is difficult to learn but once it is acquired it can be easily slowed down and becomes an excellent foundation for dramatic acting.
Irene Dunne
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Subtlety is my favourite thing in cinema. It lets you dream. When everything is on the nail and on show, it leaves no questions in your mind. I find that so boring.
Liv Tyler
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And then of course I thought Palpatine was a pretty good character. I like the notion that he didn`t have any psychological subtlety or depth, that he was just solidly evil and the dirtiest word in his vocabulary was `friend`. I thought that was terrific.
Ian McDiarmid
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[on John Wayne] That`s why John Wayne finally became a good actor in "True Grit": he`s got 150 films behind him. Now he`s developed a saltiness and an earthiness and a humor and a subtlety that comes from mining that same vein over and over and over again...
Gregory Peck
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon
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The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.
Neal Stephenson
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Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I`ve tried my best to control that as best I can as I`ve grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.
John Schlesinger
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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
AJ Ullmann
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It`s not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There`s too little subtlety. Men and women don`t enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don`t find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I`m married and out of it, but still.
Judy Davis
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I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I`m a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there`d be more subtlet...
John McEnroe
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
Dan Fogelberg
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American audiences, when they sit down to watch TV, like to be taken on a roller coaster ride. They don`t like subtlety.
Anna Shepherd
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac Asimov
