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Alfred North Whitehead

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

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them."

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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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"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."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents."

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Amber Hurdle

"There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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