Reactions Quotes - Page 28

• A writer writes what interests him and what he can manage, and what he can make live, as Flannery O'Connor said. So my reaction to someone saying "You must!" or "You should!" or even "Hey, why don't you?" is basically to sort of shrug and politely walk off and do whatever I want to do. It's nobody else's business, really, and even if I happened to agree with one of those "musts" or "shoulds" what would I do about it, if my heart wasn't in it?

  George Saunders

  Writing, Heart, Hey

  Source: und.edu

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• What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard and to imagine the actions and reactions in your head, but it's a completely other thing to hear actors speaking your words, to see their bodies bringing the fullness of emotion, need, desire and pain to life right in front of you. It's amazing.

  Dee Rees

  Pain, Writing, Desire

  Source: highlighthollywood.com

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• The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mistake, Matter, Moments

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• When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Song, Mistake, Night

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• My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

  Lance Armstrong

  Punishment, Lines, Way

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of the parts you secretly think is one of your little gems.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Littles, Sometimes

  "Margaret Atwood Ruins a Marriage, Talks Memes, Politics in Reddit AMA". Interview with Jia Tolentino, jezebel.com. December 30, 2014.

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• When you have so many projects to nurture, one or two get real excited and raise their hands. The reaction from it tells when it's time and where to go. I usually have about a half a dozen titles in development; researchers researching and people doing cover. I'm exploring musical vocabularies I want to explore, different genres, and constantly reading things.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Real, Reading, Hands

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.

  Patricia Moyes

  Interesting, Retrospect, Causes

  Patricia Moyes (1961). “Down Among the Dead Men”

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• The future is about emotion: reactions to events are usually far more important than the events themselves.

  Patrick Dixon

  Important, Events, Emotion

  "Futurewise". Book by Patrick Dixon, 1998.

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• You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.

  Mike Svob

  Strong, Drama, Eye

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• Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.

  Anat R. Admati

  Typical, Attention, Messengers

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• To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth!

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Beautiful, Bible, Jobs

  Jaroslav Pelikan (2006). “Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures”, p.229, Penguin

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• When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

  Cate Blanchett

  People, Groups, Wave

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• We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

  Ben Whishaw

  People, Simplicity, Refreshing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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• There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Our Actions, Pay, Action

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2011.

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• I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.

  Mara Wilson

  Cutting, Athletic, Dumb

  "Mara Wilson: Hollywood child star turned New York storyteller". Interview with Katie Rogers, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2013.

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• It’s one of the most enjoyable experiences. To me, it’s theater. Immediate reaction, the second it’s done. I get to be in my living room with you, trolling my own show.

  Orlando Jones

  Done, Rooms, Theater

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• You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

  Spike Jonze

  People, Want, What You Want

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• Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure.

  Richard Schiff

  Tough, Sometimes, Happens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.

  Leo Fitzpatrick

  Stupid, Artist, Years

  "Leo Fitzpatrick, Unlimited". Interview with Ana Finel Honigman, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 16, 2011.

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• It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore... Our euro is under threat. The changing situation needs a quick and immediate reaction.

  Iveta Radicova

  Country, Needs, Moments

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• All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.

  Maren Elwood

  Art, Emotional, Creation

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• Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic.

  Anne Morice

  Hands, Boredom, Curious

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• Speaking of opinions, the charming woman does not air hers very freely. The crude woman is eager to let you know what she thinks of every matter, person or object that bobs up. She comments on every passing item - even in public, as you may have noticed. Not only is it bad taste for her to be so desperately interested in her own reactions and opinions - but she throws away the precious aura of reserve and mystery that makes a woman attractive.

  Margery Wilson

  Thinking, Air, Doe

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• In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.

  Gladys Mitchell

  Murder, Killing, Circumstances

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