Visceral Quotes

• Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

  PJ Harvey

  Very Deep, Feels

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• The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Intellectual, Together

  "Crowdfunder: Why Penn Jillette Hopes to Be the Anti-Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Matt Patches, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 30, 2013.

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• Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.

  Bessel van der Kolk

  Past, Self, Bombarded By

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• Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I’d exchanged more saliva than sentences.

  Tammara Webber

  Guy, Saliva, Reactions

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• It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.

  Joyce Appleby

  Passion, Past, Diversity

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• Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, Strong, Connections

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

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• My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Change, Emotional, Listening

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• What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

  Len Wein

  Lenses, Stories, Reader

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

  Penn Jillette

  Intellectual, Psycho, Celebration

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

  Karen Armstrong

  Fundamentalist Religion, Islam, Wiping Out

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• Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?

  Max Perutz

  Ultimate Truth, Hideous, Objects

  "The Hemoglobin Molecule". Scientific American, 211, 65-76, November 1964.

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• For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

  Kurt Russell

  Sports, Men, Guy

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• I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

  Richard Dawkins

  Oppression, Revulsion, Feels

  "Fury Over Richard Dawkins's Burka Jibe as Atheist Tells of His 'visceral Revulsion' at Muslim Dress". www.dailymail.co.uk. August 10, 2010.

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• With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks

  Geraldo Rivera

  Passion, Years, Covering

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• I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Sound, Kind, Belly

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• And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

  Matt Stone

  Wall, Fun, Team

  "Team America: World Police - Matt Stone Q&A". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.

  Steve Carell

  Mom, Writing, Anomalies

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• I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.

  Judd Nelson

  Communication, Theatre, Rehearsal

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

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• We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

  Dan Pallotta

  Motivation, Inspiration, Helping Others

  "The way we think about charity is dead wrong". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2013.

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• The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.

  Antoine Predock

  Stars, Moving, Moon

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• On a visceral level, most of us know what soul loss means. This is the shaman's diagnosis of the root cause of many of our complaints: our lack of energy, our fatigue, our depression, why our immune systems are blown, why we lack enthusiasm and courage for life.

  Robert Moss

  Mean, Loss, Roots

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• The visceral experience of seeing a movie in three dimensions, coming at you in the theater, is obviously here to stay, because it is a unique experience. I think that kind of format is only appropriate for some genres, but I'm all for it.

  Cary Elwes

  Unique, Thinking, Three

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• There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Dream, Reading, People

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• It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

  Natalie Dormer

  Brain, Directors, Roles

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