Believability Quotes - Page 2

• I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

  Trey Anastasio

  Song, Half, Steps

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• Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs together, makes sense, leaves no loose ends, and is never (but never) at a loss for explanation. In a state of bewilderment it may therefore bring comfort and relief.... give its subject a new and deeper understanding of his own condition and of the nature of his relationship to his fellow men. A mythical structure will be built up around him which makes sense and is believable-in, regardless of whether or not it is true.

  Peter Medawar

  Relationship, Nature, Loss

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• Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character.

  Casey Affleck

  Jobs, Character, Emotion

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

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• I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.

  Tony Bennett

  Song, Trying, Stories

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