Response Quotes - Page 17

• For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.

  Michael Chabon

  Loss, Thinking, Emotion

  "Michael Chabon’s Vinyl Draft". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 2012.

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• Social media is really the heart of keeping in touch with your fans. I love it. You can try out new music on your fans, get immediate responses, spread the word about anything. It's really great. To reach me is to tweet me.

  Ty Stone

  Heart, Trying, Social Media

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• Muscle cells strengthen in response to intense exercise - whether you're 18 or 88. But the intensity is what's lacking in most people's workouts. And there are doctors who'll give you the advice, "Well, don't push it."

  Jack LaLanne

  Workout, Exercise, Doctors

  Source: billphillipsnews.com

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• I marvel now that it was not obvious how inextricable suffering and fear are. It was not until fear left that I noticed, slowly, how it seemed to have taken suffering with it. It took a while to figure out that (for me, anyhow) suffering is mostly caused by fear-not by the circumstances themselves, but by my response to them.

  Jan Frazier

  Fear, Taken, Suffering

  Jan Frazier, Barbi Schulick (2007). “When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening”, p.103, Weiser Books

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• Phone calls are much more personal than texting and then when you get a girl on the phone, it's like you ask a question and you get a response back. For a text message, they can read it and get back to it whenever they want to. So that makes a difference, almost like a power play in a way.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Girl, Play, Differences

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• I'm very proud of the work I do, but I genuinely can't involve myself with an audience as early as somebody who's not part of the film can. So there's that side of theater that appeals to me, where you give something and the response to what you've created is a communion between you and the dark that contains however many people. It's thrilling not having a reflection other than through the people you're communicating with. But people ask, "What do you prefer?" and I don't have a preference. I love them both. I really do.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Dark, Reflection, People

  Interview with Gary Oldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• It's really amazing to be a part of something that people have an emotional response to, even though it's a network sitcom. When you get a chance to meet fans or interact with them, you realize that there are a lot of people who the show speaks to, and that they really get something out of it, beyond just laughing. That's really fulfilling.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Emotional, People, Laughing

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks Short Film IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME, Creating Her Own Original Content, COMMUNITY, BAD MILO, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 15, 2013.

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• It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Acting, Good Times, Enjoy

  "Lenny Kravitz: The ‘Precious’ Interview With Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. March 18, 2010.

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• That is definitely a misunderstanding between me and a part of my audience. To be honest, I am often unsettled by the responses some people have had to my movies, and that includes many people who like them.

  Todd Solondz

  People, Honest, Audience

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.

  Thomas Merton

  Children, Character, Reality

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• There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85 percent of his waking energy to suppressing any sign of his emotional response to anything that was going on around him, and the other 15 percent blurting out those authentic responses in the silliest and most inopportune ways. And he had these smiles that would come at the most inappropriate times - just flashes that there was an inner life screaming to get out.

  Harry Shearer

  Emotional, Guy, Would Be

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• With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

  Steve Martin

  Years, Ideas, Comedy

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• One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: 'I'm not sure I agree with all this, but I must say this is the first book I've read by a Christian that didn't treat me like I was an idiot.'

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Book, Firsts

  Newfrontiers Interview, www.terryvirgo.org. September 25, 2008.

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• His response is more than sensible. It reflects his understanding that evens unfold as a refelction of precise karmic order and that a benevolent response in all circumstances will be the most healing one. I think he is so universally admired becuase he exemplifies by his behavior the truth that the essence of natural mind, unclouded by greed or anger or delusion, is that of peace.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Peace, Healing, Thinking

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• Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Causes, Sacred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.91, Rajpal & Sons

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• Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response.

  Aimee Garcia

  Drama, Fall, Writing

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• The great thing about writing for a younger audience is that they will give it to you straight with their responses. They'll tell you exactly what they liked and didn't like, and when they're enthusiastic, they're unashamedly enthusiastic. They'll talk to you about your characters as if they were real people, which is wonderful.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: www.writewords.org.uk

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• Spiders frighten me. In response to the spider alerts for Australia, please can the Australian government remove all spiders from Australia and blow them into outer space.

  Eddie Izzard

  Blow, Government, Australia

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• Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform witchcraft. They simply interpret what they are told and what tests reveal. They diagnose and prescribe treatment. Our responsibility is to help doctors know what is going on in our bodies and to insist on clear, precise, understandable language in response.

  Ann Richards

  Responsibility, Doctors, People

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.

  Johnny Depp

  Kids, Thinking, Way Forward

  Predd Conference: Johnny Depp Talks Rango, www.mtv.com. March 3, 2011.

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• I think social media really is a great tool. It fascinates me when I tweet something and right away you get a response almost immediately.

  Mario Andretti

  Thinking, Media, Tools

  "The Mario Andretti Indy 500 Interview: Part II". Interview with Steven Capwell, www.littlepocketguide.com.

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• Trump's immigration positions do not deserve a response because they are so outlandish. If you force me to give you three words to describe them they would be: ludicrous, impractical and racist.

  Bill Richardson

  Giving, Immigration, Would Be

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.

  Tony Abbott

  Strong, Middle East, Problem

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• Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.

  Tony Abbott

  Numbers, Australia, Asylum Seekers

  "Tony Abbott signals extending military campaign to Syria - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a response to this particular crisis, but again I stress we are taking people from camps because the last thing we want to do is to encourage and reward people smuggling.We are taking people from camps and we are taking family groups; our focus will be on family groups, from persecuted minorities.

  Tony Abbott

  Stress, War, People

  "Sticking to our Plan: two year anniversary of the Abbott Government". Joint Doorstop Interview, Canberra, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. September 7, 2015.

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