Minutiae Quotes - Page 1

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
Scarlett Thomas / Author
Big Ideas
Bigs
Domestic Life
Ideas
Minutiae
Life Me More
Concept
Domestic
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You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.
Eric Betzig /
Day To Day
Minutiae
Subconscious
Tied
Wild
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I think, as a writer, you see the big picture, and as an actor, you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details.
Richard Dormer / Actor
Big Picture
Details
Minutiae
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I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio.
Norm Macdonald / Comedian
Sports
Bowls
Fans
Five
Huge
Minutiae
Radio
Sports Fan
Talk Radio
Years
Years Ago
Fan
Won
No Interest
Super
Super Bowls
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I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.
Pamela Sue Martin / Actress
Fame
Idaho
Minutiae
Mountain
Worry
Life I Am Living
Retreated
Tune
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Just because I am paying attention to politics and culture doesn't mean that I should be talking about the health-care bill, talking about the minutiae.
Andrew Breitbart / Publisher
Minutiae
Paying
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I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
Anne Mccaffrey / Writer
Minutiae
Scale
Dealing
Writers
Remind
Windows
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Fatherhood has changed me - it has to change you. It makes you much more aware of the minutiae of life, it's not about your needs any more, its about everyone else's.
Peter Kay / Comedian
Fatherhood
Minutiae
Life Change Me
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Some directors don't get involved in the cinematography and are just about story, but I'm definitely more tactile than that in terms of my involvement in the minutiae.
Cary Fukunaga / Film Director
Cinematography
Involvement
Minutiae
Tactile
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If you want to love your life more, you can begin by living and loving more of it - by zestfully living and loving every teeny-tiny, gorgeously-detailed minutiae moment!
Karen Salmansohn / Author
Minutiae
Life Love Moment
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I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.
Mary-Louise Parker / Actress
Behaviour
Character
Minutiae
Thinking
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In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.
Sigmar Gabriel / Former German Federal Minister Of The Environment
Covered
Covered Up
Dissatisfaction
Live For Today
Minutiae
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Life Politics Business
Emotions
Gradually
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Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
George Eliot / Novelist
Minutiae
Noses
Vanity
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It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.
Xander Berkeley / Actor
Behaviour
Hours
Human Experience
Inspection
Minutiae
Charged
Dramatically
Highly
Season
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Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.
Chris Hardwick / Comedian
Caught
Details
Fulfilling
Minutiae
Nerd
Understanding
Tremendous
Creature
Detail
Nerds
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Once you stop thinking about the minutiae of what each part might mean for your career, you learn that if you do a good performance, it's going to be good for you. The work is what matters.
Fred Savage / Actor
Minutiae
Work Good Thinking
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We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae destined to be forgotten, always looks smaller in comparison.
Masha Gessen / Journalist
Comparison
Destined
Filled
Forgotten
Minutiae
History Moment People
Smaller
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Khalil Gibran / Poet
Knowledge
Wisdom
Atoms
Characteristics
Minutiae
Mother
Self
Mother Me Know
Incumbent
My Self
Subtleties
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I feel like with a movie you know your whole journey, and even though little minutiae might change, you're able to get a better idea of where you're going, whereas TV is engaging a different side of your brain.
Sophie Cookson /
Engaging
Minutiae
Whereas
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When you're in the moment and not over thinking the song is when things tend to really work. You're not so focused on the minutiae. You're focused on the overall feel, and that's the stuff that I get from the demos.
Adam Granduciel /
Demos
Minutiae
Overall
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Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
Aaron D. O'connell /
Interconnectedness
Minutiae
Academics
Broad
Detail
Scientists
Task
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I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone.
Norm Macdonald / Comedian
Bowls
Minutiae
Radio
Self Contained
Sports Fan
Talk Radio
Years Ago
Accessible
Won
No Interest
Super
Super Bowls
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
Tabatha Coffey / Hairstylist
Caught
Day To Day
Minutiae
Standing
Tenacious
Convictions
Your Important People
Ahead
Fundamental
Mode
Passions
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Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.
Bono / Singer
Boring
Charter
Defense
Embarrassing
Homework
Institutions
Minutiae
Nations
United
United Nations
World
World Bank
Then
Admit
Report
Bank
Before
Read
Fred
Spot
Meeting
Sadly
Soft
Soft Spot
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If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.
Jonah Goldberg / Author
Ancient
Ancient Rome
Baseball
British
Cards
Christian
Minutiae
Rome
Signals
Christians
Comedies
Comics
Washington
Spot
Nerds
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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
Anne Lamott / Novelist
Beauty
Ocean
Uplifting
Blessing
Desert
Gospel Music
Minutiae
Precise
Silence
Sky
Thirst
Tiny
Young
Die
Gospel
Blessings
Crystal
Neil
Neil Young
Pulled
Uplift
Yearn
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Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about facts but about the interpretation of facts, not about one particular feeling but about a confluence of conflicting feelings. Everything is elusive in Proust because nothing is ever certain.
André Aciman / Writer
Elusive
Impression
Interpretation
Minutiae
Proust
Conflicting
Sees
Seldom
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'Point Omega' starts in an art gallery, where an unnamed man is watching, day after day, a 24-hour version of 'Psycho,' an installation that was created by the Scottish artist, Douglas Gordon. In it, the events and the minutiae of Hitchcock's film are painfully slowly reproduced; the watcher is obsessed with the detail revealed.
Justin Cartwright /
Gallery
Hitchcock
Installation
Minutiae
Psycho
Scottish
Version
Detail
Douglas
Gordon
Slowly
Painfully
Revealed
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With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play.
Simon Mainwaring / Blogger
Technology
Apps
Media
Minutiae
Never Ending
Platforms
Play
Rolling
Social Media
Effective
Hierarchical
Stream
Technologies
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