Behavior Quotes - Page 28

• I don't consider myself very brave in any sense. I'm interested in this kind of behavior. My job is to try to make it realistic and emotionally resonant. That's the most challenging thing, to bring emotional resonance to what you do as an actor.

  Julianne Moore

  Jobs, Emotional, Brave

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 28, 2008.

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• Everything's getting homogenized. It seems to me like music and behavior and everything else is getting homogenized.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Seems

  "Dick Van Dyke talks to one of our grandmas about his new book on aging, Keep Moving". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.

  Richard Ayoade

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If the film isn't in some way going to study behavior then I'm not interested, but the reason why I'm not interested in directing in film is that it would take me, to be as good an artist as I feel I am an actor, it would take me another 35 just to conquer.

  Bruce Dern

  Artist, Actors, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Handheld camera is approximating what we're seeing when we're looking at each other, and kind of looking around, and your eyes whipping around. It adds an immediacy, where you feel like you are watching something through your own eyes, standing there with them. And that just allows you to take more liberties and have more fun with people's behavior.

  Paul Feig

  Fun, Eye, People

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2011.

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• From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact.

  Alante Kavaite

  Strong, Writing, Emotional

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself.

  Robert P. George

  America, Grandfather, Dawn

  Robert P. George (2016). “Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism”, p.78, Open Road Media

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• Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

  Sean Connery

  Phrases, Excuse, Used

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• We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.

  B. F. Skinner

  Mutation, Reinforcement, Natural

  B.F Skinner (1965). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• One of many challenges is of course to create a legal basis for copyright issues that's up to date with both modern distribution, consumer behavior and the rights and needs of creators and copyright holders.

  Lisa Langseth

  Rights, Issues, Challenges

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always a study of human behavior because if we just demonize it, it becomes unreal.

  Wendell Pierce

  Study, Accepting, Should

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Although homosexual behavior is very common in the animal world, it seems to be very uncommon that individual animals have a long-lasting predisposition to engage in such behavior to the exclusion of heterosexual activities. Thus, a homosexual orientation, if one can speak of such thing in animals, seems to be a rarity.

  Simon LeVay

  Animal, Long, World

  Simon LeVay (1996). “Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research Into Homosexuality”, p.207, MIT Press

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• Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.

  Nir Eyal

  Thinking, Next, Action

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.30, Penguin

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• Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.

  Nir Eyal

  Motivation, Two, Ease

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.9, Penguin

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• One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Creativity, Excellence, Domain

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• Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured in movies and novels and suchlike. Criminals and persons loitering with and without intent hold a crucial place in the culture. For obvious reasons, the culture cannot endorse this behavior, even as it is in thrall to it.

  Luc Sante

  Self, Criminals, Essentials

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I've always assumed it to be an absolute requirement for being a writer: to find all emotions and the sources of all behaviors somewhere within yourself.

  Luc Sante

  Requirements, Emotion, Source

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The thing that has always interested me in the kinds of shows that I do have more to do with the consequences of behavior than the behavior itself. Pulling a trigger and shooting somebody, or dismembering somebody.

  Steven Bochco

  Shooting, Kind, Triggers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that we need more economic-based solutions to the problems afflicting the Black community, and I think that that's a way to redefine affirmative action. I grew up with poor white people in West Virginia, and I know there's a culture of poverty. I know that I've seen white people perform exactly the same pathological forms of behavior as Black people do when they're systematically deprived, whether it's getting pregnant, doing drugs, dropping out of school, whatever we're talking about. I think that we should have affirmative action for poor white people too.

  Henry Louis Gates

  School, Thinking, Virginia

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

  Pam Grier

  Hate, Generations, Counseling

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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• Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.

  Carly Fiorina

  Conscious, Performances

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• Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Wrestling, Boxing, Savages

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• 3 "amnesty" didn't mean rewarding illegal behavior.

  John McCain

  Mean, Amnesty, Illegal

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• It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Wise, Divorce, Example

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