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It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.
Tracey Ullman / Actress
Poignancy
Sadness
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If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.
Matthew Weiner / Director
Best Way
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In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
Sam Kean / Writer
Poignancy
Violinist
Across
Leaking
Thumb
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Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.
Michel Faber / Writer
Fetch
Pathos
Poignancy
Tactics
Required
Techniques
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Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
Paul Tsongas / Former United States Senator
Depth
Giving
Granted
Mortality
Poignancy
Days
Gives
Meaning
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I hope maybe 'The Returned,' in some small way, can contribute to the argument of the poignancy of human life and make people not take for granted things.
Mark Pellegrino / Actor
Granted
Human Life
Poignancy
Life Hope People
Contribute
Returned
Take For Granted
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I loved 'Dumbo.' I watched Bugs Bunny time and again. The Muppets were big, too. All of those, they have this real, not darkness but poignancy, that's what makes it stick with you.
Pete Docter / Film Director
Muppet
Poignancy
Bunny
Watched
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I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.
Jim Jarmusch / Film Director
Miles
Poignancy
Davis
Affecting
Forms
Liking
Page
Text
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The kind of industrial wasteland that you see in so much of Europe has a tremendous poignancy to me, especially when it's run down and you see the collapse and failure of this system. And also how nature reclaims it.
Johann Johannsson /
Collapse
Poignancy
Tremendous
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The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.
Lily Cole / Model
Men
Dawn
Different
Different Cultures
Escapism
Fairy
Modern World
Narrative
Poignancy
Tales
Timeless
Represent
Cultures
Fairy Tales
Feature
Themes
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Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.
Joan Chen / Actress
Following
Poignancy
Further
Result
Singular
Therefore
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There's a poignancy to being with someone older. I think there's a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what's important, and it can make the little things seem very small. It puts a kind of sharp light mixed with a sort of diffused light on something.
Sarah Paulson / Film Actress
Appreciation
Greater
Little Things
Poignancy
Older
Mixed
Puts
Seem
Sharp
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The photograph of the Queen sitting stiffly across the table from Glasgow resident Susan McCarron is so natural and expressive that it looks utterly fake. It looks like an artist's portrait, complete with symbolism, humour and poignancy. No wonder the palace and the press have interpreted it in such different ways.
Amanda Foreman /
Different Ways
Expressive
Fake
Glasgow
Humour
Photograph
Poignancy
Symbolism
Queen
Interpreted
No Wonder
Palace
Portrait
Resident
Susan
Utterly
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