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When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.
I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.
When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics.
I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.
I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
Pain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.
I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.
I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.
Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear, and powerful in the midst of emotional 'storms'.
Here's something you never hear: Now that I've worked through all my emotional issues, I'm free to dedicate my life to ventriloquism!
A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them
Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.
I'm not an equipment nut. I tend to use whatever's at hand. I have several cameras, of course, but I'm not emotional about any of them
You have to have an emotional investment in what you're doing. If you don't love what you're doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.
If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.
While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
An emotion occurs when there are certain biological, certain experiential, and certain cognitive states which all occur simultaneously.
As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.
It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.
Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.
What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.
The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff.
For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality.
By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.
I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.
Emotional pain is sometimes what we make of it. We can always choose how we react. No matter what the pain, breathing always centers me.
My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.
An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading.
You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.
Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger.
Emotional hurt, you gotta let that go. Walk away and let it be. So many highs and lows, but if you keep being down, you'll never get up.
Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this.
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.
Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.
Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.