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“I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of emotions. The feeling is underneath, which in my experience is where most feeling is. I don't myself spend my life shouting in rooms, and I don't really believe things in which people do spend their time in total hysteria.”

People Thinking Believe Play Feelings Rooms Emotion Huge Amount Display Shouting Hysteria

Author:David Hare

“Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.”

“When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information she/he has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that she/he has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.”

Want Writing Made Book Character Certain Order Emotion Novel Knowing Information Reader Amount Paid Structure Guides Maintaining Payment Fidelity Paid Off

Author:David Bezmozgis

“I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.”

Body Language Term Emotion Honest Amount Fairs Okay Snakes Body Language Grumpy

Author:Dominic Monaghan

“I am always impressed by the fact that even the tiniest amount of being listened to, the barest suggestion of the possibility of kind treatment, can bring such an immediate rush of emotion. I think this is because we are almost never really listened to. In my work as a psychologist, I am reminded every day of how infrequently we are heard, any of us, or our actions even marginally understood. And one of the ironies of my "listening profession" is its lesson that, in many ways, each of us ultimately remains a mystery to everyone else.”

Source: The Sociopath Next Door

“What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.”

Way Persons Emotion Dog Amount Anxiety Skins Smell Sweat Acid

Author:Robert Crais

“[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.”

Children Real Play Emotion Serious Amount Opposites Psychoanalysis

Book:Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works

Source: Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works

“An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this.”

Knows Art Literature Felt Imagination Emotion Effects Amount Intention Harm Enormous Consumers Justification Vague Pornography Erotic

Book:To Hell With Culture

Source: To Hell With Culture

“I think that now most people know someone in their family that is coping with something, but there is still a tremendous amount of shame - that one is still regarded as a defective unit ... if only they would pull up their bootstraps - they are only indulging their emotions, everybody's moody, blah, blah, blah.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Stills Emotion Amount Shame Units Coping Defective Moody Blah Pull Ups Bootstraps

Author:Carrie Fisher

“When you look at the amount of medication that has been administered to children today, it stands the hair up on your arms. Because this is the way that they are helping children manage their emotions.”

Way Looks Children Has Beens Helping Today Emotion Hair Arms Amount Manage Medication Helping Children Hair Up

Author:Goldie Hawn

“I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.”

Ifs Home Felt Emotion Color Amount Evoke

Author:Nate Berkus

“There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.”

Song Emotion Possibility Amount Infinite Performing Detours

Author:Beck