Emotion Quotes - Page 28

• Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

  Sloane Crosley

  Heart, Vintage, People

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• The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it? Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

  Rachel Cusk

  Important, Fundamentals, Telling The Truth

  "Rachel Cusk: A fine contempt". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Acting, Doe, Actors

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• The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Love Life, Hypnosis

  'The Descent of Man' (1871) ch. 4

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• Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.

  Evan Davis

  Decision, Brain, Example

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• Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

  Ani DiFranco

  Heart, People, Boots

  Song: Outta Me, Onto You, Album: Dilate

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• It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?

  Vin Diesel

  Real, People, Interesting

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• For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have...

  Emma Donoghue

  Parent, Normal, Produce

  "Frog Music review - Emma Donoghue's sophisticated whodunnit" by Alex Preston, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2014.

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• My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

  Drake

  Artist, Green, Als

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• Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Mean, Feelings, Shadow

  Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.10, Theodore Dreiser

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• Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

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• Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

  Roger Ebert

  Ideas, Mind, Desire

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.402, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

  Blake Edwards

  Race, Order, Unhappy

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• Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, that's the best way to get it out and across.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Writing, Acting, Intense Emotions

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• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

  Larry Elder

  Passion, Gun, Law

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• The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

  T. S. Eliot

  Feelings, Ordinary, Use

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.953, Faber & Faber

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• Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

  Havelock Ellis

  Men, Kind, Failing

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.32, Elsevier

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• I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

  Ben Elton

  Writing, Being In Love, Lucky

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• Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

  Brian Eno

  Reality, Demand, Action

  "Lessons in how to lie about Iraq" by Brian Eno, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

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• This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Memories, Doe, Kind

  "Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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• When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

  John Fahey

  Light, Play, Drawing

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• Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

  E. M. Forster

  Funny, Beauty, Humor

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.134, RosettaBooks

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• Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, 4th Of July, Anger

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.36, Nayika Publishing

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• It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

  Anna Freud

  Mother, Children, Feelings

  Anna Freud, Dorothy T. Burlingham (1967). “The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956”

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