Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.
Teju Cole
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I was always interested in storytelling, particularly in theater and film. I liked creative things. My mom and dad are wonderful people, but both are tone deaf, so I don't know where the gene came from.
Marc Platt
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I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when I was barely out of my teens. Like our olive skin tone and caterpillar eyebrows, I guess it just runs in the family.
AJ Lee
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I recently saw HBO's 'Getting On,' and I was like, 'That's awesome.' I love that tone. It's a great show.
Danielle Schneider
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I love getting time to write a piece of music that can settle in and set the tone of the show.
Ramin Djawadi
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I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.
Nancy Pelosi
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I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
Eddie Van Halen
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I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.
Jim Jarmusch
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Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.
John Eaton
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If you set a tone that you don't want people to be part of your team, they don't join.
Jeb Bush
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Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms.
Simon Mainwaring
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As I got older, I fell in love with Radiohead, and 'OK Computer' is one of my favorite albums of theirs. Sonically, the tone of the guitars on tracks like 'Electioneering' just rips right through me.
Mary Lambert
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There aren't, like, four Aquamans before me. I get to set the tone for it.
Jason Momoa
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Walking strengthens my legs, and I swing my arms to tone my upper body.
Christy Turlington
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Take the tone of the company you are in.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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It's no coincidence that 'Night at the Museum' completely blew the lid off my career. I finally got a handle on tone.
Shawn Levy
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In 1977, I had Paul Rivera hotrod six Fender Deluxes for me. At that time, a lot of studio guys in L.A. were using those - not so much live guys but studio guys. They had terrific tone and great technique, and I was like, 'Well, I like having terrific tone even though I don't have any technique.'
Rick Nielsen
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With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.
Marti Noxon
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With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.
Julie Harris
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If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.
George Ripley
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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I think every character that I play has a certain sort of tone or an energy level to them.
Bill Skarsgard
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Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax.'
Terry Eagleton
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And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning.
Lee Scott
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