Response Quotes - Page 11

• when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Talking, Dominant

  "Becoming Intimate With Your Own Creative Impulses". Interview with Brad Crawford, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.

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• The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings -- about themselves, their parents, their friends -- and their own situation as a kind of subject race, always at the mercy of the adults who mostly run their lives for them.

  Nina Bawden

  Running, Children, Writing

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• Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.

  Indra Devi

  Personality, Anxiety, Gone

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• [To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.

  Barbara Lee

  Courage, War, Mistake

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• Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't know. It doesn't help that I'm lazy.

  Jim Beaver

  Book, Writing, Lazy

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• Debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one-minute response.

  Rick Perry

  Ideas, Tears, Able

  "Rick Perry Discusses His Flat Tax Plan, Immigration, Romney". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. October 25, 2011.

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• Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.

  George W. Bush

  Evil, Special, Liberty

  George W. Bush's address to the Nation in Fort Bragg, North Carolina,, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2005.

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• One of the things I always believed in was my dad came to America and he was a very talented musician, but he couldn't make a living that way so he had to support his family as an auto mechanic which he also loved doing. He was also such a great dad because when I first told him I thought I wanted to go into show business, his response was okay, that's interesting.

  Denis Leary

  Dad, America, Interesting

  "Denis Leary Wants David Bowie & Steven Tyler In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 – Comic Con". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 12, 2015.

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• If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.

  Robert Greene

  Reality, Games, Mind

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me.

  Donald Margulies

  Play, Scripts, Flip

  "Interview with Playwright, Donald Margulies". Interview with Ted Sod, www.broadwayworld.com. January 13, 2014.

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• The person who conveys, 'I am nothing. Make me something,' may all his life have people trying to answer his hidden plea, but their answer will be in terms of, 'I am trying to make you something because you are nothing,' and, thus, the insult will be embedded in the response. It will be heard just as clearly as the attempt to help. And it will be hated.

  Jo Coudert

  People, Trying, Answers

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.134, iUniverse

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• It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.

  Jo Coudert

  Personality, Creative, Energy

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.15, iUniverse

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• I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?

  Freddie Mercury

  Queens, Fans, Mercury

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• When something is dramatized it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.

  Joanne Froggatt

  News, Stories, Hearing

  "Downton Abbey controversial rape storyline to continue as Lady Mary offers to help victim Anna Bates" by Mark Jefferies, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2013.

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• I love saying 'yes' and I love saying 'please.' Saying 'yes' doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying 'please' doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. 'Yes please' sounds powerful and concise. It's a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman.

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, Powerful, Real

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• I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Rocks, Answers, Jazz

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2010.

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• Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

  Christopher Willard

  Art, People, Copying

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• women's entry into the public sphere can be seen not merely as the result of contemporary economic pressures, the high rate of divorce, or the success of the feminist movement, but rather as a profound evolutionary response to a pervasive cultural crisis. Feminine principles are entering the public realm because we can no longer afford to restrict them to the private domestic sphere, nor allow a public culture obsessed with Warrior values to control human destiny if we are to survive.

  Sally Helgesen

  Women, Divorce, Warrior

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• Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love. Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry. Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage. We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: "Who am I?" "Why am I?" "Where am I going?" - and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.

  Carson McCullers

  Communication, Writing, Love Is

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• It seems increasingly dogs are attacking humans in response to their slavery... AND, wildlife in captivity are also attacking their enslavers AND the public... Their messages are loud and clear: LET US OUT AND LEAVE US ALONE!!!

  Adela Popescu

  Dog, Animal, Captivity

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• Creative people often feel highs of joy and lows of sorrow that others may never experience, and perhaps could not even handle if they did. Little wonder many outside the creative world mistake (or dismiss) eccentric responses of the spirit as weakness or mental illness. But in the end, these dismissive souls will never know what it is to be moved by tears by the beauty of rose or brought to joy by sunlight filtering through the leaves of spring or autumn. The creative walk in glades invisible to those outside their realms.

  Duncan Long

  Mistake, Spring, Creativity

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• In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Character, Artist

  Siri Hustvedt (2006). “Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting”, p.19, Princeton Architectural Press

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• I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.

  Moshe Safdie

  Strong, Thinking, Hands

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• I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Color, Portraiture, Shapes

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• There is physical evidence of the body's response to doing good. Endorphins are released in the brain when you do something for someone else. Doing good really feels good.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Feel Good, Brain, Body

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