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Specificity is the soul of narrative.
John Hodgman / Author
Narrative
Soul
Specificity
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The Universe responds to specificity.
Romany Malco / Actor
Specificity
Universe
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I try not to shy away from specificity.
Finneas /
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I think people wanted to see some specificity in faith on TV.
David Seltzer / Screenwriter
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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
Walter Mosley / Novelist
Condensation
Metaphor
Specificity
Teach
Teaches
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Most uses of bioassay involving smooth muscle demand high sensitivity and specificity.
John Vane /
Demand
Involving
Sensitivity
Smooth
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Muscle
Uses
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I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
Bonnie Jo Campbell / Novelist
Manage
Specificity
Thinking
Writing
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I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.
Terry Tempest Williams / Author
Our Lives
Specificity
Thinking
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I like comedy that's very specific and isn't afraid to lose people through its specificity.
Josh Gondelman / Comedian
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Everything that David Chase does has a tremendous amount of specificity. He is very detail oriented.
John Magaro /
Amount
Specificity
David
Chase
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Detail
Oriented
Tremendous Amount
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Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.
Uta Barth / Photographer
Specificity
Thinking
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Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.
David Slade / Film Director
Communicate
Specificity
Vision
Director
Clearly
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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I think most Americans, when we're building a character, we look at the specificity of what that person is, in particular.
Latanya Richardson /
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I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.
Zazie Beetz /
Specificity
Universality
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What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.
Paolo Bacigalupi / Writer
Honestly
Specificity
Stories
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At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.
Tabitha Soren / Photographer
Color
Mtv
News Stories
Nice
Specificity
News Story
Specific
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The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.
Jacqueline Woodson / Writer
Details
Specificity
Universal
More
Become
Generalize
Resonate
Something
Specific
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My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.
David Schwimmer / Actor
Advice
Specificity
Universal
Life Experience Your
Emerge
Specific
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In a career of trying to pry secrets, gossip, specificity and truth out of media executives, Ailes has been the most forthcoming, personal, compelling and honest I've ever dealt with.
Michael Wolff /
Compelling
Executives
Forthcoming
Gossip
Specificity
Dealt
Pry
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Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.
Constance Wu /
Making Money
Producers
Specificity
Asians
Invest
Encourages
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
Oliver E. Williamson / Economist
Finance
Approach
Cost
Debt
Ought
Projects
Specificity
Financed
Low
Moderate
Transaction
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There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language that is somehow not as clear in a lot of American schools.
James Avery / Actor
Specificity
Required
Shakespeare
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I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write.
J. D. Souther /
Specificity
Intrude
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I take particular care in authenticity and specificity when working in cultures not my own. Every aspect of the filmmaking here was meticulously researched, and not just by me but across every department.
Niki Caro / Film Director
Aspect
Authenticity
Department
Filmmaking
Particular
Specificity
Across
Cultures
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Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.
David Mitchell / Novelist
Ambiguity
Slides
Specificity
Versions
Contains
Final Cut
Readers
Text
Whereas
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I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.
William Gibson / Novelist
Fiction
Lacking
Lazy
Science Fiction
Shorthand
Specificity
Writing
Visual
Imagining
Seemed
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Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in their own way. Thus, figuring out how to balance the two has an intense specificity.
Rumaan Alam /
Family
Parenting
Advice
Artist
Balance
Intense
Specificity
Two
Useless
Works
Figuring
Mostly
Thus
Uniquely
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As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.
Edward Lawrie Tatum /
Cases
Direct
Enzymes
Evidence
Function
Genes
Hypothesis
Numbers
Specificity
Controls
Experimental
Gene
Production
Repeatedly
Stated
Underlying
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I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.
Mike Mills / Composer
Specificity
Touch
Touch People
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Love is universal, luckily, but also in general I've found that whenever I've been the most specific in my stand-up, revealing some weird neurosis or quirk I'm ashamed of, that's what people relate to the most. Specificity is key!
Mae Martin /
Ashamed
Neurosis
Revealing
Specificity
Love Love Is Weird
Luckily
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We never pull down the quality of the product, and I think that pays in the long term. People come up to me and say, 'I'm still wearing a Missoni sweater from 30 years ago, and it still looks great.' So quality, specificity and passion.
Margherita Missoni / Model
Specificity
Great Passion Me
Pays
Pull
Sweater
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The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich your imagination. And specificity in description is something every writer should strive for.
Christopher Paolini / Author
Advantage
Description
Specificity
Strive
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The iPod has taken away the whole platinum record sales prospect. Sincerity and specificity are going to be the hot commodities in music. Everybody can have anything that they want, so now it gets into what specifically you have to give.
Eric Lewis /
Platinum
Sincerity
Specificity
Commodities
Prospect
Record Sales
Sales
Specifically
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Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.
Jhumpa Lahiri / Author
Dimensions
Handful
Situation
Specificity
Affect
Alter
Arranged
Conjure
Magical
Profoundly
Real People
Surely
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France has a specificity - the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are French. They had a habit of, let's say, getting along with each other, and the prices traditionally were very high.
Xavier Niel / Entrepreneur
Access
France
Habit
Internet
Specificity
Telecom
French
High
Getting
Market
Prices
Provide
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I'm always looking for a reason to say no when I'm approached about a big studio tentpole because your fear is will you be consumed into the anonymous machine, and it will suck out any specificity and point of view that you might hope to express.
Matt Reeves / Film Writer
Consumed
Point Of View
Specificity
Anonymous
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Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.
Naveen Jain / Entrepreneur
Abstraction
Brain
Experts
Patterns
Related
Specificity
Area
Base
Forced
Identify
Specific
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I'm not as worried about the process of writing, simply because I think I've got that one down, you know? I think I know what brings specificity to these ideas, what brings specificity to the genre elements, or anything else, and it's personal emotions.
Jeff Nichols /
Elements
Genre
Specificity
Worried
Brings
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
Rachel Bloom / Actress
Filipino
Good Story
Seeing
Specificity
Television
Tired
Who Cares
Jewish
Cares
Good Black People
Group
Network
Network Television
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I do feel like anything benefits from character logic. That can be from the dumbest ad to the greatest Shakespearean drama to the silliest 'Saturday Night Live' sketch. There is a certain specificity in detail, which you can get when you're paying attention to stuff like that.
David Harbour /
Attention
Benefits
Drama
Logic
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Specificity
Ad
Detail
Dumbest
Paying
Shakespearean
Silliest
Sketch
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In some ways, I value specificity. I think that there's power in, once you know who your fan base is, being able to speak to them. I hope to cultivate a fan base of black girls and black people and people of color, women of color, queer people, people who are are marginalized in general.
Jamila Woods /
Color
Marginalized
Specificity
General
Base
Hope Women Power
Fan
Cultivate
Fan Base
Queer
Value
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I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.
George Saunders / Writer
Application
Details
Fiction
Rhetorical
Short Story
Specificity
Thinking
Accretion
Conclusions
Invalid
Wider
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We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'
Walter Mosley / Novelist
Artist
Book
Capitalism
Defined
Specificity
Picture
Draw
Limited
Line
Production
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The more money you spend, the more you need to make back, and the more pressure there is to appeal to everyone - which to the studio means that the specificity and uniqueness must be watered down. But I think mass audiences like things that are more specific and tend to have a voice, like 'Napoleon Dynamite' or 'Superbad.'
Casey Wilson / Actress
Dynamite
Mass
Specificity
Uniqueness
Appeal
Audiences
Napoleon
Watered
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Everything we do on 'Luck' is absolutely no different than if we'd had been doing it in a feature film. There's no short cuts. The specificity of what every single line might mean. Everything Dustin Hoffman does. Kevin Dunn is as authentic in the last scene of the last episode as he is in the first scene of the first episode.
Michael Mann / Film Director
Luck
Specificity
Authentic
Cuts
Dustin Hoffman
Episode
Feature
Feature Film
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