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I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.

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

When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

I feel like having details from their day and having a plot and action and things to do is much more revealing than having a character sitting and thinking to themselves. When I'm writing, I want people to actually have a goal, something that's dragging them forward.

We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

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.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music. You want to make sure you've pared down all the extra details so that in the end, every stitch has a context uniquely yours.

We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail.

Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening.

The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.

Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to a place, or things alter around them, that's the point to step back and fill in the details of their world.

I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of the people involved there, and I try to run up all the accounts side by side to see where the contradictions are, and to look where things have gone missing.

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

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

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.

Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have the best eye for retail, either.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed's lending programs during the financial crisis.

I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world's best, studying the minute details of what makes a person great.

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

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.

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

'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.

It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

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.

The people who met today aren't the people who work out the nitty-gritty details to make things happen. LSU will obviously be reimbursed for expenses and would not suffer financial losses from this arrangement. Beyond that, not a lot of details have been settled. They will emerge in the days to come.

The plunge in durable goods orders in January is entirely due to volatility in transportation. The underlying details of this report are much stronger than the headline.

We are pleased to confirm ... that indeed some progress was tentatively made on various important issues. We are not in a position to provide further details of the agreements ... because they still need to be fleshed out and confirmed by higher levels on both sides.

We started to fade a bit, started to lose focus the last couple of weeks. We talked about tightening up, taking care of the little details and just sort of refocus and regroup.

There are some final details to be ironed out with our agreement, we would then want to see the other agreements.

There are some details that need to be worked out (in determining) exactly what form of coalition government we're going to get. But essentially, the message for financial markets is 'yes -- reform,' but it's not going to be dictated by the conservative LDP.

We didn't declare the intersection unduly hazardous based upon the accident experience or the details surrounding the accident. The city still finds it a very tragic situation.

We don't have any details on what caused it,

We've asked them to give us the details on the spill, what happened, how it happened, what caused it, what they've done to contain and control it.

What we're seeing right now is most likely stage one, with other details to come in the near future.

When we are on and when we're playing well, everybody feels that confidence. But at times we have had problems staying with it. But we do have stretches when we pay attention to the details and play well and we have that confidence.

When we finally get to the game, I'll be looking forward to it. But right now, there are so many details that we need to take care of just to get on the plane and be able to have a good Friday study session that it's kind of overwhelming right now. I really haven't had the time to think that this is my first game at Stanford.

We are getting dozens of calls a day asking for details about the Medicare prescription-drug coverage.

What makes life most difficult is the media intrusion, ... I think the public has gotten more and more greedy for the intimate details of their lives. These people are exposed to scrutiny 24 hours a day. We feel we have a right to know. We feel it's in the public interest. Even pop stars get more privacy. We just want to know every last detail. They are living in a goldfish bowl. And it never goes away.

We're going to do a real investigation here, spend some substantial, significant time with him getting to the bottom of what happened and how he escaped. And then we'll release details as we have them. Right now, let's just make sure he's in good physical shape, which he appears to be, and give him an opportunity to reconnect with his loved ones.

We're getting a lay of the land. We're finding out where the microphones are, how they'll operate, which tables we're going be sitting at, how to present the exhibits -- the basic details that one wants to be familiar with when you're presenting a trial.

We're aware of some individuals who are disappointed with actions that have been taken and have heard rumors of a formal meeting. However, we're not aware of any specific details of a protest.

Ultimately, first and foremost, you're looking out for the well-being of your family. That comes before the game or a possible suspension or anything else. I don't know all the details (about Davis), but I have no problem with a guy going up there and trying to protect his family. He seemed to be very much in control. He was just concerned. How can you blame the guy?

Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.

Famous people like to choose friends who won't go around repeating their conversations and details about them.

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has created an exquisite script. His attention to detail is impeccable.

I definitely pay attention to details. I think one of the hardest things about making a movie is that it can be scrutinized over and over again. If anything just isn't right, it's going to take you out of the film.

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Worldly influences, feminine details and cleansing colors of spring will encourage women to discover something new.

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

We have asked the police to furnish details on the loopholes.

We have no details with respect to events surrounding the cause of the cut. As is our policy, our security department will conduct an investigation and report back promptly. As always, we will share the results of that investigation with appropriate league officials.

Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.

You cant be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.

I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot of wonderful photographs were made available to me from that period - 1950-1956 - and those were given to me by a Korean newspaper in Seoul. Ruined villages, refugees streaming through a river valley, GI's and orphans and orphanages, those tiny details that you can only see in a picture.

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer. I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.

You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.

We acquired this spectacular, one-of-a-kind set of images immediately after getting into orbit for the express purpose of seeing fine details in the rings that we had not seen previously.

It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.

Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments,

Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

...in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

The 'Star Wars' movie is coming out. Disney has kept the details of the movie under wraps because they're not Sony.

Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

There are a lot of nice details that are exclusive to C. Wonder, which are the status C. Wonder gold buttons and the tassels. We want the customer and the loyal client to just really know that when they come to C. Wonder they're getting something that's super wearable but is also really luxurious.

In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.

We did interview one person. And I cannot provide additional details on any evidence seized. But no one was arrested.

The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real,

The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all their glistening detail and restored palettes.

What we know is that people are aware the site exists but don't know the details of the actual plan.

We decided to come out early because the board confirmed the details yesterday and we wanted to inform the market on a timely basis.

We've been in conversations with (Boston College) about an opening weekend game. We are close but there are still some details to work out.