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toned down

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toned-down

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Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out. Hope Solo

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff. Aaron Levie

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down. Kevin Richardson

Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down. Madeleine M. Kunin

'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and... obsequious. Matt Groening

I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me. Michelle Ryan

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