Downplayed Quotes

Wheeler's Luck is strongly promoted as a New Zealand play and in the past that may have been downplayed in the publicity, and that it is now so much a part of the marketing shows we are getting over our cultural cringe factor. - Nigel Collins

We have no illusions about China's desire to acquire sensitive information and technology for military uses by many different means. It is absolutely not true that we downplayed any evidence of this. We took the issue seriously, as our actions demonstrate. - James Rubin

We are so visually stimulated that we don't even realize how important touch is. Our other senses get downplayed, but they can cue us into stuff that maybe isn't that apparent by our vision. - Tina Kahn

The whole racial thing has been downplayed, but that is what it was. It seems that everyone wants to sweep the thing under the rug. - Forrest Pearson

The Voting Rights Act, whose 40th anniversary we celebrate this month, has helped minorities elect 81 sitting members of Congress and thousands of local officials. But the rally civil rights groups held in Atlanta earlier this month to push for extension of the act's key temporary provisions downplayed those gains and instead pushed wild claims that some state laws requiring an ID to vote are the functional equivalent of Jim Crow poll taxes. - John Fund

Sometimes, you read a script, and you believe passionately that you must play this character. And I needed to show that passion to him, although I think I downplayed my passion a bit because I didn't want to scare him off. I didn't want him to think I was crazy enough to be a problem. - Fernando Meirelles

Right now we have to look at the significance of this. Here is a war that is supposed to be over. Now we have 114 people killed...(The Russians) had downplayed that the rebels could get that close to the base. - Jill Dougherty

Proponents of pharmaceutical crops have inflated the rewards and downplayed the risks. - Jane Rissler

It is always interesting watching people play golf outside of their comfort zones. Look at this week. Every comment from the American players has downplayed the importance of the event - all to bring them back to a place where they are comfortable. 'Yeah I lost, but it doesn't matter. We're just mates out there having a good time.' Very convenient that! - Greg Turner