Top 45 Nuance Quotes

I think someone like Khandi Alexander, who’s now on ‘Treme,’ is one of the most extraordinary actresses I’ve seen in years. But she’s dependent on someone brilliant like David Simon to realize that and to give her a forum. Tyler Perry’s not interested in that kind of nuance because it doesn’t sell.

I think the documentary is something that people are hungry for, that it embodies careful thought, nuance.

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

I love to feature children and young adults as real people – flawed, naive, virtuous, venal – but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn’t exist without them.

You especially want to strive for that nuance on a show like ‘The Flash,’ which is different from ‘Legends’ in the sense that it’s really, at its heart, a smaller show. It’s a more intimate show, in a way.

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

‘Almost’ is all about gradations and nuance and about suggestion and shades. Not quite a red wine, but not crimson, not purple either, or maroon; come to think of it, ‘almost’ Bordeaux.

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.

Bachchan is the luckiest man on earth. No one knows the nuance of the Hindi language or can incorporate elements from stage on to the Hindi cinema the way he does.

The artistic world is one of high nuance.

I love football. I mean, I’ve gotten a chance to spend a couple of moments with Peyton Manning and have just deeply intense great football nuance conversation with him.

Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.

Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods.

At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.

The most important problems we face are complex, and require sustained attention. But we don’t speak in terms of nuance or complexity. Is that by accident? It’s because our minds have been entrained to expect shorter and shorter bite-sized bits.

The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I’ll go over a piece of copy until I’ve gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind – every nuance.

I was a stickler. I wanted to learn every nuance to my craft. And that’s not just talking about in the ring. It’s all facets. Production, marketing, PR. I’ve always looked at this business as a business.

If we want to change the nuance of a particular word we have to change that ourselves.

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films that illustrate all that we are and all our nuance and all our complicated beauty and mess, and when you’re telling those stories, you gotta have black actors.

Religion has played a big part in eliminating the nuance in humanity. People began to believe things before they knew them. It stopped people from listening and learning with the patience and love of the God they believe in.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn’t really have quite enough nuance.

In films, the camera catches each nuance of expression in close ups. On the stage, it is less subtle, you have to act with your whole body.

I’m a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

There’s a clean simplicity to the plotting of ‘Sinister,’ whether you like it or not. And the scares are deliberate and even heavy-handed in a way. There’s not a lot of sophistication or nuance in the plotting and not much restraint in the scares – and that’s a part of what makes the movie accessible.

Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a brutish social world.

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership’s exquisite sensitivity.

You cannot measure the minute nuance that makes the difference between being happy and unhappy at work.

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in a comedy that it’s hard to contextualise it in a script.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we’re either the noble savage or we’re completely a savage, and there’s no nuance.

The culture is eating nature; it’s overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games – it’s abut the image, not nuance.

‘Plutocracy.’ It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Exploring Castro’s pawns in Cuba and exposing anything negative also makes you a pawn to all his enemies 90 miles away. Both sides don’t have much of a track record for nuance of opinion.

That’s what I love about history – nuance. I don’t believe in unalloyed heroes. Everyone’s got warts, and everyone’s got a surprise side.

Theatre is all about the process and the sense of community that is created. You have weeks of rehearsal, time to explore your character and get to know the other actors. There is opportunity to try off-the-wall ideas, to find layers and nuance over weeks. You become like a second family with your cast.

As a novelist, I feel lucky that I can traffic in nuance. I’m more interested in looking at how things change over time, at how people try and sometimes fail to make meaning out of their lives.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can’t really do that fast.

Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of systemic discrimination and abuse faced by disabled people.

Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.

Whether I’m making a gluten-free cookie or a lactose-free milkshake, my end goal is always to make it so awesome, clever, and creative that you’ll want to indulge whether you have a sensitivity, dietary nuance, or don’t.

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication – and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.