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

"The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world."

"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."

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

"For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breezeBy lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds,Which image in their bulk both lakes and shoresAnd mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearThe lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy GodUtters, who from eternity doth teachHimself in all, and al things in himselfGreat universal teacher! He shall moldThy spirit and by giving , make it ask."

"Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why's, you can love those parts too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete."

"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."
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"The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it."


"No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music."


"I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry."


"I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment."


"When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea."


"But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words."
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