Tone Quotes
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'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
Gary Ross -
Leadership means setting a moral tone.
J. B. Pritzker
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Tone can be as important as text.
Ed Koch -
It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
Daisy Berkowitz -
The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.
Paul Auster -
Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.
Burgess Meredith -
I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
Nancy Reagan -
When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening.
Amy Poehler
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I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
Dana Fox -
Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.
Steve Wozniak -
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
Samuel Butler -
Tone matters more than words.
Kangana Ranaut -
I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.
Rachelle Lefevre -
I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.
Laini Taylor
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
Adam McKay -
If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
Rachel Kushner -
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
Franz Liszt -
You've got to set a tone early. We didn't set that tone early last year and it lasted the whole year.
Eddie Guardado -
O Peterkin,” said I, in a tone of remonstrance, “how could you be so unkind as to waken me when I had just got to sleep? Shabby fellow!” “Just got to sleep, say you? You’ve been snoring like an apoplectic alderman for exactly two hours.
R. M. Ballantyne -
And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source.
Jean Philippe Rameau -
For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.
Rachel Kushner -
Tone is an interesting question because part of the inspiration of looking to song is that Geisel himself - when you think about his animated version of The Grinch - embraced the idea of using songs in unconventional ways, as part of conveying a narrative. The use of music, in this film, is very unconventional, which I love.
Christopher Meledandri -
I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak.
Lady Gaga