Oblique Quotes. QuotesGram

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy.

There's always the pressure on the director of how to transition from one scene to another, especially when it can really be oblique on 'Game of Thrones.'

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

Nowadays, the conventional wisdom is that you shouldn't look like you're selling. Never let them hear you ask for the sale. Because, the theory goes, young people are so aware of what's going on, so sharp, that when you are hustling them, they feel it. So everything's oblique, nothing's to the point, nothing knocks you out, nothing says 'Buy me.'

Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

Oblique Quotes

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