Mood Quotes - Page 19

• So just to be clear, Microsoft has created a new operating system that isn't properly compatible with a best-selling, still perfectly useable version of its own software. Which of course provides quite a powerful incentive for me to spend up to £99.99 on upgrading to Microsoft Outlook 2007 - except that in my current mood, I'd rather stick pins in my eyes.

  Robert Peston

  Powerful, Eye, Microsoft

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• Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than on moods or condition. Proactive people are agents of change and choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Choices, Principles

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Way, Tomorrow

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his piece, it is so visual, his moods are introduced and buttressed by camera rather than by word or character. But again, that's unique.

  Rod Serling

  Character, Unique, Cameras

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• A location can really enhance exercise enjoyment. Getting out in nature - whether it's a beach, lake, river, forest, hills or even an urban park - can do wonders for our mood and stress levels.

  Michael Klim

  Beach, Stress, Exercise

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• We used hand-held cameras 50 years ago. It wasn't something new. Sometimes we used a tripod, or we'd have a tracking shot, and sometimes - like when a character was being chased - we used a hand-held camera because it was right for the scene. In those cases, it helped the mood; it created immediacy and a feeling for the viewer that they were in the scene and in the moment.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Character, Hands, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that the audience should not be able to tell if it is real or not real - it should be an enhanced version of reality, or an artistic view of reality, that captures not only what is physically there, but what is not visible - the mood.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Real, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Reality, Missing, Technique

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is something more to "reality" than just the tangible. There is also mood, and you cannot skip that.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Reality, Tangible, Skip

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs. A Frank Sinatra album sets a certain mood, just as a Clash record sets another.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, People, Albums

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• There are just long gaps where I can't find a point of insertion, I can't find a good opening line, I can't find a mood that I want to write into. But once I do, once a line falls out of the air, or I get a little inkling of a subject and I recognize that, it's like the sense that a game has started.

  Billy Collins

  Fall, Writing, Air

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs.

  Orianthi

  Song, Writing, Sometimes

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary" things. In screenwriting, I don't have that guilt because story is the only thing. Character, dialogue, everything else - they feed into and drive story.

  Nick Antosca

  Character, Focus, Guilt

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People get bored of hearing the same genre of music over and over again. Observe the current musical landscape and predict what "mood" people will be in next. Ask yourself what would be the most natural transition or reaction to the current genre. Then create it!

  Wendy Starland

  Bored, People, Musical

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• Traditionally, an engineer is responsible for capturing sound - microphone choice, gear, etc. A producer can have a number of different responsibilities - anything from songwriting to judging performances - setting mood, and (perhaps most importantly) choosing which songs to work on!

  Matt Squire

  Song, Responsibility, Numbers

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• For me especially, I always have a very cheery disposition and that's how I've always come off. So I forget that doesn't really allow me to have a bad mood.

  Katy Perry

  Bad Mood, Forget, Disposition

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• You have to be willing to get back on that horse and try it again if the mood strikes. That was one of the great pieces of wisdom that I got early on in my career in terms of being blocked. If you get to a creative roadblock, you can sit there and rack your brain.

  Dave Koz

  Horse, Careers, Creative

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• The lesson is that voters in both parties are in a very anti-establishment, populist mood. Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate.

  Mara Liasson

  Party, Lessons, Voters

  "As Iowa Race Nears, Anti-Establishment Leaders Hold Strong". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2016.

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• I like to think about what the song is saying, the story of it, and conveying the mood of that to the audience. But at the same time, sharing through interacting with them and engaging them.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Song, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I hadn't thought about the balance in mood. You see that we did it in alphabetical order, so if there's any kind of shape, or any kind of flow, it's random. Gender...we didn't think much about it. It was sort of interesting to see that women often were choosing women and men often were choosing men. And sometimes they wouldn't and that was fun. I didn't know that I would be excited by that, until I saw it happen.

  Lorin Stein

  Fun, Men, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel like few things are more successful at portraying honest emotions/experiences. There also just seems to be a certain feeling/mood that I respond well to. I feel similarly about the artist Kahimi Karie and the films "An Education" and "Marie Antoinette." Anything with a strongly and unapologetically feminine point of view I tend to be interested in.

  Marie Calloway

  Successful, Artist, Views

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of.

  Zac Farro

  Writing, Way, Chords

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• Every performance is different. There are so many factors involved... the people I've met that day, the weather, the city I'm in, conversations, sleep, mood, everything. However, there are many nights when the stars align and I feel like both the story teller and the stranger in the crowd, hearing it all for the very first time.

  Dia Frampton

  Stars, Sleep, Night

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• Sometimes, when you briefly glance in Hollywood, there's a tendency to play it in a very "Yes, she's exhausted, and yes, she's working, and yes, she's taking care of her kids full time, and yes, she's a mom, but she's also in a great mood all
  the time."

  Patricia Arquette

  Mom, Kids, Play

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Acting, Stories, Quitting

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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