If you set a tone that you don't want people to be part of your team, they don't join.
I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie you're watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.
Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.
I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.
I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.
Adam: Aren't you supposed to be wearing an earth-toned sweater and be like 65 or somethin?
In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.
I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.
The Tone is the Message.
Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
It's no coincidence that 'Night at the Museum' completely blew the lid off my career. I finally got a handle on tone.
My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
