I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
~By Anne Stevenson ~
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
~By Loretta Young ~
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
~By Vernon Howard ~
I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there.
~By Hunter Tylo ~
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
~By Serge Daney ~
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.
~By Hugh Jackman ~
Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.
~By Nile Rodgers ~
There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.
~By Corin Nemec ~
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
~By Ken Burns ~
I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.
~By Doris Humphrey ~
When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.
~By Gustave Moreau ~
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions.
~By Marilu Henner ~
I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.
~By Kim Elizabeth ~
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
~By Patrick Marber ~
I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.
~By Marion Cotillard ~
With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.
~By Payne Stewart ~
We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.
~By Anthony Head ~
I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.
~By Ludacris ~
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.
~By Akshay Kumar ~
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
~By Isabel Allende ~
It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.
~By Peter Davison ~
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
~By Balthus ~
I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you.
~By Greta Scacchi ~
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.
~By Elmer Bernstein ~
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
~By Toru Takemitsu ~
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~
Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.
~By Adrian Lyne ~
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.
~By Boris Becker ~
I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
~By Roger Ebert ~
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
~By Irvin S. Cobb ~
People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
~By Kristin Scott Thomas ~
I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.
~By James D'arcy ~
I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.
~By John Robinson ~
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
~By Ringo Starr ~
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
~By Alice James ~
Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
~By Owen D. Young ~
The road Cordelia has travelled, the journey she has taken up to now has been such a joy to play as an actress, because there have been so many chances to do so many different emotions.
~By Charisma Carpenter ~
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.
~By Margot Kidder ~
I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.
~By Jim Valvano ~
Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.
~By Robert Altman ~
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
I can access emotions very easily.
~By Allison Janney ~
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
~By Peggy Noonan ~
I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.
~By Anita Loos ~
My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
~By Pierre Loti ~
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
~By Havelock Ellis ~
We all have human emotions that rob our lives.
~By Jennifer O'Neill ~
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
~By C. S. Forester ~
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
~By Paul Engle ~
Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
~By Ian Botham ~
We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.
~By Frank Jordan ~
Oh, I'm not English, I cannot talk on behalf of an English person. I'm French. I can say about French. They are quite emotional, though, and they talk about their emotions.
~By Sophie Marceau ~
The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.
~By Edward Levi ~
Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.
~By Jan Hammer ~
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
~By Ichiro Suzuki ~
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
~By Thomas Moore ~
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
~By James Otis ~
I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
~By Elizabeth Taylor ~
Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.
~By Neil Jordan ~
Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
~By Scott Ian ~
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
~By Henry James ~
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
~By Phil Knight ~
People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.
~By LaToya London ~
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
~By Paul Getty ~
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
~By Ted Shawn ~
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.
~By Simon Newcomb ~
The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.
~By Annie Lennox ~
Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
~By Joni Mitchell ~
In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.
~By Billie Burke ~
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.
~By Helena Christensen ~
Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
~By Eric Brown ~
There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.
~By Richard G. Scott ~
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
~By Edward Hopper ~
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