"The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details."
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"One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up."
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"One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life."
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"When playing against big teams, it's the small details that count."
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"What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?"
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"Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have."
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"You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real."
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"My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict."
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"Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details."
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"He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail."
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"I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual code and starting fresh. Most philosophers haven't the courage for this; they swallow the basics of the present code--monogamy, family pattern, continence, body taboos, conventional restrictions on intercourse, and so forth--then fiddle with details...even such piffle as discussing whether the female breast is an obscene sight! (p.365)"
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"Details are the Life of Prose."
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"She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing."
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"To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect."
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"The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail."
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"Happiness hides in life’s small details. If you’re not looking, it becomes invisible."
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"No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail to his good pleasure. If we put ourselves in such a frame of mind, then, whatever may happen to us, we shall never feel miserable or accuse God falsely because of our lot."
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"It's probably a prerequisite for the job, or at least you have to have enough craziness to think that you can do the job. I think that [Donald Trump] has not spent a lot of time sweating the details of, you know, all the policies."
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"Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning."
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"When you are filming, you have to let the thing really open so you can bring more life and details into it and even look for some kind of imperfection. It's good to have a good script but then you must make a mess out of it, I think."
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