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All fanaticism is repressed doubt.
There must be repressed truth even in lies.
I've played an awful lot of repressed people.
I came from a good, repressed Catholic background.
Women in Tamil Nadu are repressed. This must change.
Fervid atheism is usually a screen for repressed religion.
A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.
My whole world up until punk was this total repressed Catholic lifestyle.
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.
It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.
There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.
If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.
The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.
I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed.
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.
There was a beautiful church where I lived in Navan, taught by the Christian brothers: fierce, angry men, repressed.
I don't see how 'Hunchback' could ever appeal to children. It's a very adult story that deals with repressed sexuality.
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Black Rainbow' is about control and your emotions being repressed and controlled, and 'Mandy's' about all a volcanic eruption!
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
I think I have started to take life as it comes and quite uninhibitedly, without being repressed by the expectations of the society.
Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein brutally repressed all forms of opposition to his regime, and before the Iraq War, al Qaeda had no presence in Iraq.
Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.
Ang Lee and 'Hulk,' for instance - a movie about a guy with different-colored skin and a lot of repressed rage? Sounds like the perfect film for an Asian, to me!
My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.
I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip.
I feel like that's so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you do, you have to rebel against it at some point.
My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other social strata. When I did, I found them colossally vital.
I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!
I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.
Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth.
My job is to make grown men cry, to blow people's minds and elevate them, make them transcend and unlock emotions that have been repressed by life, their job, situation - that's what I do.
That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.
Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free. The repressed are not free to do what they want. That's what 'Star-Crossed' was all about for me.
I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think.
Saddam Hussein was undoubtedly a brutal dictator who had attacked Iraq's neighbours, repressed and killed many of his own people, and was in violation of obligations imposed by the U.N. Security Council.
Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.
Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.