"I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail."
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"Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life."
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"I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene."
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"Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details."
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"Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand."
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"It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail. We look forward to your custom in future lives ... thank you."
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"For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional."
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"Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive."
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"Only the dying take pleasure in the details of what the healthy fail to notice."
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"In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example."
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"Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within the topic."
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"I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details."
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"I want to Gods thoughts, the rest are details."
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"I want to know what God thinks. The rest are details."
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"In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles."
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"All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day."
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"We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities."
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"I'm prickly. I fuss over every single detail."
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"Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details."
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"For theater, the fashion had to have a certain grandeur that would read on the stage while also flattering the actress. The same thing applies when doing a wedding dress, but the treatments can be more delicate and there can be much more detail."
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