Primal Quotes - Page 9

• I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

  Alan Ball

  Heart, Self, Looks

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• The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration.

  Pamela Love

  Art, Inspiration, Movement

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it's also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth - about, essentially, a man who is resisting the most irresistible fact of all, that we will be shuffling off this mortal coil.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Men, Profound, Life And Death

  Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I think a lot of people get intimidated by the language of music, but everyone owns music. I think there's nothing standing in between a composer and her audience. I think a lot of people feel that way because they feel it's rarefied, but it's really not. You should feel the impact of it without being able to name it because it's ultimately a primal thing.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Thinking, Impact, Names

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Mother, Fighting, Way

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• Before I could read, I remember trying to piece together the stories from the images. It was a very primal experience.

  Daniel Clowes

  Trying, Together, Stories

  "Clowes Encounter: An Interview With Daniel Clowes". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May 13, 2010.

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• Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.

  Ted Alexandro

  Acceptance, Talking, Lenses

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• A lot of times I feel like people stick around in a relationship because they feel a primal need to be with that person for whatever reason.

  Gabrielle Dennis

  People, Needs, Sticks

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• ...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.

  Huston Smith

  People, World, Window

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• Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

  Karen Armstrong

  Failing, Tradition, Purity

  "Prejudices about Islam will be shaken by this show". www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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• I like doing voiceover work. I just like it in general, because you're constantly working on a very first-instinct level. You show up, you get in front of the microphone, you look at the lines, you say the lines, and then you move on. You work on a really primal level, is what I'm saying. You don't have to shave. You don't even have to wear pants. But, uh, that wasn't your question.

  Ron Perlman

  Moving, Looks, Levels

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 31, 2009.

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• The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Space, Unseen, Serene

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.111, OUP Oxford

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• It naturally elevates the soul to feel this intimate relationship to it's primal ground...A man then feels himself truly at home, and whenever he is lifted up through music he can say to himself: "Yes, you come from other worlds, and in music you can experience your native place."

  Rudolf Steiner

  Home, Men, Intimate Relationships

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• I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.

  Will Smith

  People, Trying, Emotion

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Ideas, Hunger

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Being naked in water - there's nothing better. It's primal and freeing.

  Asher Roth

  Water, Naked

  "Interview with Asher Roth: Swim Naked and Don't Sweat the Small Stuff". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

  John Darnielle

  Feelings, Using Words, Structure

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Moving, Agency, Life Is

  "The Silent Wife".

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• The race struggle is the primal one, and the class struggle secondary. The last dominating race is the German.

  Moses Hess

  Struggle, Race, Class

  Moses Hess (1943). “The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, the Last Nationalist Question”, p.226, U of Nebraska Press

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• The cause I am most passionate about is natural birthing. I had my son at home, and it was the most primal, intuitive, empowering, and loving experience I've ever had.

  Zoe McLellan

  Home, Son, Empowering

  "NCIS: New Orleans Actor Zoe McLellan: The Inspiration Equation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfect, Balance, Decomposition

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.98, editionNEXT.com

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• The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

  Richard Wagner

  Heart, Order, Long

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• Nothing is wrong with you. You're not different. Everybody feels as bad as you do: this is just what writing a novel feels like. To write a novel is to come in contact with raw, primal feelings, hopes and longings and psychic wounds, and try to make a big public word-sculpture out of them, and that is a crazy hard thing to do.

  Lev Grossman

  Crazy, Writing, Psychics

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• What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Scary, Different, Suspense

  Source: collider.com

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• Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.

  Christiane Northrup

  Self, Connections, Needs

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