Mood Quotes - Page 4

• I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Ideas, Work Out

  "'Shiver' author Maggie Stiefvater ready to see her werewolves on the big screen" by Sabrina Weiss, www.mtv.com. October 23, 2009.

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• I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Beautiful, Children, Skeletons

  "Stellan Skarsgård: 'I'm a castrated bull'" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2012.

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• I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Character, Editors, Trying

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

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• The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Writing, Way, Scene

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

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• To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

  Edward S. Walker, Jr.

  Lamps, Rooms, Bulbs

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• I think music can heal your soul if you'll let it. It can also bring you up if you're down. It can also bring you down if you're too up. It's a mood thing.

  Gretchen Wilson

  Thinking, Soul, Heal

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• Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.

  Tim Walker

  Butterfly, College, Stories

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• Realize that your present difficulty is only a small part of you, and the rest of you is doing quite well, thank you.

  Lynn Grabhorn

  Bad Mood, Realizing, Discouraged

  Lynn Grabhorn (2011). “The Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting Playbook”, p.4, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.

  Donald Miller

  Writing, Discipline, Different

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• The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.

  Craig McCracken

  Jobs, Writing, Artist

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• Music is extremely important to have on photo shoots - it brings the mood.

  Raquel Zimmermann

  Important, Music Is, Photo Shoots

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• What is it that brings on these moods of yours?
  Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Pain, Ordinary, Alive

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.45, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

  Nick Cave

  Weather, I Can

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• It is OK to be happy in life. Even through all the strife, maybe especially during times of great pain and suffering. We still have to be able to stay close to that joy because we can't save the world in a bad mood.

  Andrew W.K.

  Pain, Happy Life, Joy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning.

  John Ratey

  Memories, Exercise, Brain

  "7 Mind-Blowing Benefits of Exercise" by Deborah Kotz and Angela Haupt, health.usnews.com. March 7, 2012.

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• Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at you, teeth bared. You are frightened and angry. But then you notice that one of its legs is caught in a trap. Immediately your mood shifts from anger to concern: You see that the dog's aggression is coming from a place of vulnerability and pain. This applies to all of us. When we behave in hurtful ways, it is because we are caught in some kind of trap. The more we look through the eyes of wisdom at ourselves and one another, the more we cultivate a compassionate heart.

  Tara Brach

  Dog, Pain, Heart

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• I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.

  Rebecca Wells

  Party, Oysters, Shells

  Rebecca Wells (1999). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the viewer himself can't understand why that mood exists, because there are no dripping watches or grotesque shapes as reference points. That is what I'm after: that mood which is apart from everyday life, the type of mood that one experiences at very special moments.

  Ian Hornak

  Ideas, Perfect, Everyday

  The 57th Street Review, January 1976.

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• Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.

  Ansel Adams

  Dream, Heart, Past

  Ansel Adams (1981). “Celebrating the American Earth: a Portfolio”

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• When I go on the set, I'm so rushed. When I see the actors at rehearsal, when I love it, I want to keep the mood - my mood and the actors' mood also. So I have to push the crew faster. I don't want to lose the mood.

  Andrew Lau

  Actors, Goes On, Rehearsal

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• Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Thinking, People, Dresses

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• Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you?

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Would Be

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• Music can change lives. Whether you are having a good or bad day, the power of music can change one's mood.

  Jess Bowen

  Music, Life Changing, Bad Day

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• Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Anger, Commitment, Maturity

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Since you're going to die anyway, why not go do whatever it is you are in the mood to do. To postpone anything is ridiculous, if it's important to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Important, Why Not

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