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“I'm a music storyteller and collaborator. I hear character, location, and story as music. For me a score is there to both heighten the story and to actually tell the story with the unique emotional and narrative powers of music.”

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Author:David Raiklen

“My dream project is a sports film, because I love writing emotional music and a sports film is one of the few places you can do it without being melodramatic.”

Writing Dream Film Sports Can Do Emotional Projects You Can Do It Being Me

Author:Jeff Cardoni

“You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready.”

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Author:Stephen Daldry

“I'm now a pretty good mix of my mother and my stepfather because I'm in general pretty mellow. I'm not hyper-emotional. But there's also this side of me - my mother was an artist and very funny and a dancer and very wild and into fashion. My stepfather traveled a lot, and I kind of took on a role of parenting my mother a lot of times, because she was pretty hard to handle. A bit of a pistol.”

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Author:Tig Notaro

“I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.”

Thinking Self Stuff Acting Emotional Singing Connected

Author:Dolly Parton

“Brad Bird is fond of saying that music is the easiest thing that can derail a film because if it slightly goes a degree off track it will take the viewer in the wrong emotional direction. To work with people who actually care about that is a good thing.”

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Author:Michael Giacchino

“I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.”

Thinking Kind Book Film Emotion Comedy Fronts Emotional

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The core of the film is usually something very emotional and something that feels really real that you can relate to, it's not like done in a false way. You know a lot of films will treat emotion falsely and you can sense that very quickly.”

Knows Way Feels Real Done Film Emotion Emotional Treats Core Relate

Author:Michael Giacchino

“When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.”

Littles Accepting Support Emotional Affection Guarded Hardened Emotional Support

Author:Patricia Heaton

“Action is a way of externalizing an emotional state. You might not be running, leaping, climbing and doing all that. But, the way you create that emotional state in a movie is by having the characters have physical jeopardy that they have to work against.”

Way States Character Might Running Action Emotional Climbing Jeopardy

Author:James Cameron

“Everytime I play something for someone there is an emotional thing that happens that guides me.”

Play Happens Emotional Guides Guide Me Emotional Things

Author:John Swihart

“Women have so many levels. There's the physical level, which is a lot of fun. There's this emotional level, which is extremely mercurial.”

Fun Levels Emotional

Author:Robin Williams

“I have enough friends who are gamers. I actually enjoy watching them play because of the visuals and the storytelling of the games. I just love being able to go on an adventure and games are just so sophisticated now that you can just get lost in a world for 20 hours and just be someone else in a very visceral, emotional way. And that's just fascinating.”

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Author:Bill Watterson

“I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.”

Want Reason Emotional Paint Outlets Pretty Picture

Author:Jason Shawn Alexander

“For me, listening to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in particular, there's an emotional aspect - very different kinds of emotional aspects from those two composers, nonetheless, very strong emotional aspects from both of those composers.”

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Author:Crispin Glover

“If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to cry. And that's very difficult to make happen.”

Ifs Happens Able Film Difficult Audience Cry Emotional Portions Get Real Screening Clockwork

Author:Michael Pitt

“The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.”

Men Desire Father Emotional Innate Good Father

Author:Will Smith

“People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“Determination and persistence are melded together. Their basis comes from people who stay hungry and don`t allow themselves to get too comfortable. Entering a comfort zone is the fastest way to kill your drive and determination, at which point you begin to accept whatever you have as being "good enough." There is no self-esteem in accepting the status quo. There are tremendous emotional and psychological rewards that come with pushing yourself to break through past limits and, in the process, creating something of value for yourself and others.”

“Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.”

Feels Emotional Lows Aspect Caught Filmmaker Confusing High Points Low Points

Author:Gloria Steinem

“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.”

People Shows Speak Realizing Chance Laughing Fans Emotional Response Fulfilling Sitcom Really Amazing Emotional Response

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“When you can't fix all your problems with your fists and the problems aren't solely physical, and you've got to deal with the emotional complexities of life and people, it's a really interesting development.”

People Problem Interesting Deals Emotional Development Complexity Fists Really Interesting

Author:Antony Starr

“People never regret when they come out of a movie and they've been crying. I think people need it. That's why people have the theater and live music, which is dwindling as well. I think people like to go see things and have an emotional, transcendent, universal human experience, but so often we're like, "Let's go watch Green Lantern," which we all know is just not going to do anything for our souls.”

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Author:Daniel Gillies

“I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, I am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out.”

Knows Years Long Has Beens Culture Imagination Our Lives Subjects Emotional Intellectual Contemplating Angle Meaning Of Love

Author:Bell Hooks

“I'm weird; I have a very strange emotional memory. I really somehow hold on to even passing moments with people.”

People Moments Memories Emotional Strange Passing Passings Passing Moments

Author:Marc Maron

“I can listen to the same song back-to-back for two to three hours straight. I'm not psycho; I swear. There are some songs I won't listen to any more because they are songs that helped me get to emotional places. Even if I hear it, I'll have to walk out of the room or turn it down. It sounds so strange but those things affect me in a certain way.”

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Author:Rami Malek

“Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies is a passionate, intensely emotional experience for me. I'm detached from the characters only to the degree that I have to be in order to write honestly about them.”

People Way Writing Kind Character Order Emotional Degrees Passionate Honestly Detached Heartless Dissecting

Author:Todd Solondz

“As the writer, I may choose to ignore the emotional heart of the matter, and focus on details, and trust that the heart of the matter will be conveyed nevertheless.”

Heart May Matter Focus Emotional Details Nevertheless

Author:Lydia Davis

“I often pose questions to myself and want the answers. The questions may be psychological or emotional. Or they may involve botany or [...] physiology. [...] I am very curious about strangers I observe - as in a bus line. I am very attached to finding out answers.”

Want May Lines Answers Emotional Findings Stranger Psychological Curious Bus Physiology Botany

Author:Lydia Davis

“The reality is [in] any emotional situation, a compulsive eater eats or an alcoholic drinks. What people misunderstand is that when you're a compulsive overeater, you don't just eat when things are bad. You eat when you feel anything.”

People Feels Reality Situation Emotional Drink Alcoholics Alcoholic Drinks

Author:Jeff Garlin

“I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.”

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Author:Anthony Hopkins

“When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw opportunities to express my music - dare I say art - in a way that I could get a bit surreal.”

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Author:Nicolas Cage

“First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director.”

Firsts Play Would Be Imagination Decision Careers Emotional Directors Resources Life Experience Criteria

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very therapeutic, but that's best done in your journal, or on your blog if you're an exhibitionist. Trying to put a bunch of *specific* stuff from your personal life into your story usually just isn't appropriate unless you're writing a memoir or a personal essay or something of the sort.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Authentic power is a new potential of this expanded perceptual system that we are all being given as a gift. As you begin to create authentic power with tools such as emotional awareness, responsible choice and intuition, you begin to draw to yourself others who are doing the same thing.”

Choices Given Awareness Emotional Draws Tools Responsible Intuition

Author:Gary Zukav

“Be aware of emotional toxins as well as physical toxins. Be aware of what you are thinking. Clear yourself at the end of every day. Try not to go to bed angry or distressed or anxious or jealous or envious.”

Thinking Trying Wells Ends Clear Emotional Bed Angry Jealous Anxious Envious Toxins

Author:Gary Zukav

“The spirit for me is the eternal self. And when one incarnates, an aspect comes with that incarnation, that's called the soul. And together the mind, the emotional body, and the soul form the energy field that lives within this thing called the human body.”

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Author:Caroline Myss

“Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.”

Persons Helping Able Pain Term Deals Emotional Drug Alcohol Drugs And Alcohol

Author:Axl Rose

“I think that it would be good for people to realize and understand that they are doing something to deal with their pain and they aren't really going to be allowed to escape it and outrun it forever without side effects and certain consequences, as far as emotional and mental happiness and their physical condition. And I'd like people to be aware of those things.”

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Author:Axl Rose

“Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.”

Artist Stuff Difficult Emotional Overcoming Being An Artist

Author:Chris Johnson

“Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." You drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." Everything is poetry, so I think we come down to emotional information. And that's what poetry conveys.”

Thinking Art Matter Use Information Emotional Drink Art Is No Matter What Wine Metaphor Glasses Poetry Is Bottles Describing Wine Glass Informative

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Take away material prosperity; take away emotional highs; take away miracles and healing; take away fellowship with other believers; take away church; take away all opportunity for service; take away assurance of salvation; take away the peace and joy of the Holy Spirit... Yes! Take it all, all, far, far away. And what is left? Tragically, for many believers there would be nothing left. For does our faith really go that deep? Or do we, in the final analysis, have a cross-less Christianity?”

“People change and forget to tell each other.”

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Book:Toys in the Attic: A Drama in Three Acts

Source: Toys in the Attic: A Drama in Three Acts

“I'm never hard on people just because they annoy me on the show. I'm not emotional when I'm professional. Do I think there are people on the show who need to go home sooner than they do? Yes. I do. but I'm there to be professional and to be a judge and to give them my advice and my help and I take my job really seriously.”

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Author:Kelly Cutrone

“You gotta not care about what people think in general about you. I'm not talking about bad stuff, if you're a nasty person, because I don't consider myself a mean person, I consider that I know what i want and I'm tough. But I'm very emotional and un-tough on a lot of levels, I cry very easily, I'm sensitive and I don't think that's a bad thing.”

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Author:Joan Jett

“We probably stagnate our children's emotional growth by not letting them have some separation from us.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.”

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Author:Greg Pak

“The breath is seen to be the key between the emotional state, the mental state and physical state. It is perhaps the most important tool, and it's one whose importance is underestimated in the West.”

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Author:Paul Harvey

“For me the breath really is the tool which allows you to understand what's happening on the mental level and what's happening on the emotional level, and it also allows you to measure what's happening on a physical level.”

Levels Emotional Happenings Tools Breaths

Author:Paul Harvey

“When you concentrate on the middle of your chest - this is where loving awareness lives. This is the spiritual heart. Not the beating heart, not the emotional heart. This spiritual heart goes way back - goes back many incarnations. We call it the soul.”

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Author:Ram Dass

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