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“You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.”

“Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.”

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Author:Charlotte Rampling

“Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.”

Should Self Easy Difficult Emotion Discipline Negative Self Discipline Negative Emotions Conscientiousness

Author:Dalai Lama

“What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to your child, even though the possibility is remote, you may find it very difficult to think of anything else. Emotion becomes dominant.”

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Author:Daniel Kahneman

“It's not difficult for me to hide emotion, since I've always hidden it in my personal life.”

Difficult Emotion Personal Life

Author:Dana Andrews

“The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated lover from a rival - even from a friend. This emotion is a complex one, mad up of vanity, respect for another woman's taste, and the need to establish self-assurance by winning a difficult victory. Don Juan chose his first mistresses; later he was chosen.”

“Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.”

“Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.”

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Author:Matthea Harvey

“There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.”

Values Difficult Emotion Visible

Book:Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea

Source: Persian Pictures: From the Mountains to the Sea

“If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Persons Use Language Difficult Emotion Academic Vocabulary Anglo Saxon

Author:Lydia Davis

“It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.”

Difficult Emotion Metaphor Cinema Attempting Evoke Subtlety

Author:Conrad Hall

“We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us - it is the same love flowing between God and the soul - the soul and its neighbor. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one's own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets and guilt. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden.”

“The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.”

Way Difficult Emotion Share Love Relationship

Author:Sue Johnson

“When there's something that impacts a family member or friend, that is difficult for them, you want to do what you can to help. Sometimes you can't do anything and it makes you feel like you're helpless, so those emotions cross a big barometer, but they're a big, broad stroke when it comes to someone who you care about. If you have compassion in your heart, you just care.”

Ifs Want Feels Heart Sometimes Helping Bigs Care Difficult Emotion Compassion Like You Members Crosses Impact Broads Helpless Strokes Family Members Barometer

Author:Queen Latifah

“Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges.”

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Author:Rita Zahara

“I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.”

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Author:Steve Martin