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Helen Hayes

"Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture."

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"Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture."

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"Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital."

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"Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah."

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"Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own."

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"You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion."

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"In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process."

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"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv."

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"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."

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Asa Don Brown

"A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable."

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"My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults."

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"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."

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"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."
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"The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."
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"Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end."
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"Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity."
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"There is only one terminal dignity - love."
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"I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage."
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"The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre."
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"The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy."
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"The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life."
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"Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it."
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