Sympathetic Quotes - Page 9

• I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.

  Anna Kendrick

  Falling In Love, Character, Elements

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• She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Heritage, Backgrounds, Rejects

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.

  Russell Crowe

  Thinking, People, News

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

  George P. Baker

  Drama, Giving, Perfect

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• I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well, you can't do that because the audience won't like that. They won't root for you. It's not sympathetic." I think that we've been served this one dish for so long that we believe that it's all that audiences want, but when we test them or throw something out there that has some truth to it, they seem to always respond.

  Kristen Stewart

  Believe, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hours, Biographers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.154

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• Even if you become sympathetic for somebody who has done something terrible, I don't think that necessarily makes what they did look cool.

  Dane DeHaan

  Thinking, Looks, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't.

  Don DeLillo

  Attitude, Character, Contempt

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.6, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There's nothing like having a sympathetic reader who asks the right questions, who understands what you're trying to achieve and only wants to make it better.

  Donna Tartt

  Trying, Want, Achieve

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

  Derek Bailey

  Music, Degrees, Intimacy

  Derek Bailey (1992). “Improvisation: its nature and practice in music”

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• I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

  Andrew Motion

  Moving, Want, Evolve

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• Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.

  Timothy Keller

  Sympathy, Christian, Helping Others

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.49, Penguin

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• In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.

  Alison Weir

  Ideas, Church, Library

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• Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.

  Joseph Henry

  Science, Technology, Apples

  Joseph Henry (1972). “The Princeton years: January 1841 - December 1843”

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• When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic
  to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to
  the right.

  Dorothy Day

  Catholic, Church, Labor

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• A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.

  Mason Cooley

  Sympathy, Sorry, Looks

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• Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.

  Octavio Paz

  Writing, Adventure, Nerves

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• Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Men, Race

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.429, Harvard University Press

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• I'm very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get that way. It makes you a little more sympathetic to them, even though I really don't want to be around those people.

  Natalie Portman

  People, Negative, World

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• I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.

  Michael Caine

  Fun, People, Knack

  "Profile and Interview: Michael Caine". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• Travelling as extensively as I do... the take away for me has made me very humble and very sympathetic to other people's plight in the world and very desirous of being proactive in being part of a solution somehow and not part of a problem. It's made me very patient and very grateful for where I live.

  Henry Rollins

  Grateful, Humble, People

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten, and the man lies stunned and stricken. Then let the comforter be silent; let him sustain by his presence, not by his preaching; by his sympathetic silence, not by his speech.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Lying, Believe, Men

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• With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the indexer who knows where to exercise discretion. Any simpleton can write a book, but it requires high skill to make an index.

  Rossiter Johnson

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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• To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Distance, Mean, May

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• You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people. Until this dissatisfaction comes over you-you know what I'm talking about. Then you become moody, can even repulse people who are close to you, even people who love you, you know why. Those are bad times when everything goes cold, and they follow the times of great love.

  Christa Wolf

  Love You, Good Friend, Love Is

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