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“I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.”

Reader Response Provoking Ambiguous

Author:James Ellroy

“Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?”

People Giving Seems Doubt Institutions Blame Response Tendencies Have Faith Distrust Constructive

Author:Pratibha Patil

“I am a great believer in the OHIO principle: Only handle it once. When you read an e-mail, decide whether or not to reply to it, and, if you need to reply, do so right then and there. I have found that about 80 percent of all e-mails, whether internal or external, do not require a response.”

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Author:Robert Pozen

“Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.”

People Audience Laughing Comedy Horror Response Scream

Author:Fede Alvarez

“As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.”

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Author:Gavin Bryars

“And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens.”

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Author:Jan Brewer

“My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.”

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Author:Wilfred Burchett

“If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.”

Ifs Audience Response

Author:Emanuel Ax

“It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.”

Artist Nice Response

Author:Joe Cocker

“Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.”

Should Care Quality Response Access Medical Reform Comprehensive Liability Medical Care Malpractice

Author:Lincoln Chafee

“When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.”

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Author:Lizzy Caplan

“Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.”

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Author:Stephen Chow

“As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.”

Christian Compassion Response Sympathy For A Friend

Author:Steven Curtis Chapman

“We as comics do want an immediate response from the audience. It's really quiet on the set, and there are only the producers, and the director, so a comic is looking for someone to give a reaction, even if it is the camera guy.”

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Author:Cedric the Entertainer

“I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.”

People Ifs Want Feels Writing Walks Failing Middle Negative Response Very Positive

Author:James Frey

“Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.”

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Author:Richard Foreman

“The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.”

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Author:Vito Fossella

“When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response is a horse-laugh. When an accused politician explains that a charge of corruption is 'really' an attack on his or her race, religion, ethnic background or gender, the odds that something felonious happened jumps.”

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Author:Jeff Greenfield

“Ice cream is the perfect buffer, because you can do things in a somewhat lighthearted way. Plus, people have an emotional response to ice cream; it's more than just food. So I think when you combine caring, and eating wonderful food, it's a very powerful combination.”

People Thinking Way Can Do Perfect Powerful Wonderful Emotional Eating Response Caring Ice Combination Plus Cream Ice Cream Very Powerful Emotional Response

Author:Jerry Greenfield

“To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.”

Should Believe Moments Calling Response Speakers Preacher

Book:Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?

Source: Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?

“One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image.”

Knows Kind Past Violence One Thing Direct Threat Response Certainty Unjustified

Author:Timothy Garton Ash

“I only tweet about food and silly things, but it's really fascinating because I get a lot of response on Twitter, and I'm always looking at the type of people who write me on there, and it is such a variety.”

People Writing Type Response Silly Variety Fascinating Tweet Silly Things

Author:Sutton Foster

“I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.”

Feels Different Film Goal Support Alive Ocean Response Obvious Piano

Author:Jane Campion

“In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.”

“I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the room. I hated all the attention, which is such a stupid thing for an actor to say.”

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Author:Rebecca Hall

“From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.”

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Author:Mary Cover Jones

“People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?'”

People Feels Mind Character Mystery Crazy Response Dimensions Facets Mind Blowing

Author:Eric Kripke

“I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.”

Talking Solutions Intelligent Response

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.”

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Author:Anthony Kennedy