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"'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."
"On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day."
"The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing."
"I don't like stories where I'm being given pages and pages of detail."
"Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole."
"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."
"Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism."
"If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably is your fault. And kindly spare me the details."
"On a very technical level, I am a geek who is interested in the intricacy of rhythm playing, so I like comparing and working out its details."
"He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him."
"Many companies routinely do things that are not important. They fail to prioritize. They get involved with details that don't matter."
"Friendship is definitely the most difficult detail on the globe to elucidate. It is really not something you understand at school. But if you have not realized the which means of friendship, you truly have not realized anything."
"God was in the details."
"He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game."
"Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work."
"He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking."
"There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste of his choices in matters of high-level plagiarism."
"I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around."
