Sensibility Quotes - Page 18

• There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate truth to people.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Bigs

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back.

  Barack Obama

  Steps, Quiet, Sometimes

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• As soon as you think you have a firm idea you allow it to dissolve and you let go of it, particularly when it comes to a stylistic or aesthetic identity. In fact, you only really find out what it is when you deconstruct it; so, yeah, that's a sort of collage sensibility of having a lot of voicings coming from all over the place and not necessarily trying to shape them or try to commodify them. It keeps you in the living language... an opportunity to not be governed so much by intellect.

  Daniel O'Sullivan

  Letting Go, Opportunity, Thinking

  "A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea". Interview with Russell Cuzner, thequietus.com. September 14, 2016.

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• I think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.

  Garth Greenwell

  Writing, Thinking, Inward

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't think I'm qualified to answer questions about happiness. But I guess I'd say that I don't think you ever get to put to bed something like a search for order, or any other element of your sensibility, however much you'd like to.

  Garth Greenwell

  Thinking, Order, Bed

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People who grew up before the blogosphere, I just think that your brain is wired differently. I feel like in some ways my sensibility is aligned with people twenty years older than me than somebody six years younger. Because there was a sort of cutoff.

  Meghan Daum

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful.

  David Bowie

  Past, Thinking, Europe

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 2002.

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• We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band, a stoner band, etc) to "a band that plays music with a certain sensibility or style to it". I'm not able to see quite what that is, but it's there and some people like it a lot.

  Bent Saether

  Play, People, Style

  Source: thequietus.com

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• You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Style, Stories, Way

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out.

  Matthea Harvey

  Voice, Romance, Way

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a particular way. Similar sensibilities can spring up next to each other in the flower bed, or across oceans.

  Matthea Harvey

  Spring, Ocean, Flower

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There's something about the American sensibility that kind of hails people in the public eye. You have a star system. You have that kind of thing where you say, "Good on you for doing that."

  Guy Pearce

  Stars, Eye, People

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• To work in America or other places is more about curiosity, because I'm dealing with cultures and sensibilities that I don't really know. So I'm having to sort of investigate them, which I'm fascinated in, but it comes from a place of curiosity rather than a real need to get something out of my system.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, America, Curiosity

  Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

  Bette Davis

  Artist, Shoes, Actors

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Mean, Self

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• Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.

  Zephyr Teachout

  People, Creative, Artistic

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.

  Leni Zumas

  Decision, Pushing, Language

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the early '90s I was floating somewhere between the Brat Pack/Andrew McCarthy/James Spader/Pretty In Pink kind of stuff and the alterna-pop look, crossed with a very distinct grunge sensibility.

  Adam Richman

  Floating, Looks, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Body, Care

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.32, Wordsworth Editions

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• I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

  James Franco

  School, Nyu, Diaries

  "Can't Stop, Won't Stop: James Franco and Pamela Romanowsky on Drugs, S&M, and The Adderall Diaries". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. April 13, 2016.

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• I love Jane [Krakowski]. Jane's been a dear friend for maybe a dozen years. We've worked together on many shows and concerts and readings. We did 'Damn Yankees' together and then we did 'Xanadu.' Jane did all the workshops of 'Xanadu' before it moved to Broadway. She's hysterical and our voices blended. We had a similar sensibility.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Reading, Years, Voice

  "Renaissance man". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• If you are dealing with life from a low-level sensibility, the Internet can be a tool for manifesting that. But if you're dealing with life from the highest sensibility, it can also be your tool for manifesting that. The simple reason is that it doesn't cost money.

  Marianne Williamson

  Simple, Tools, Cost

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• What Taika [Watiti] still bring to it [Hunt for the Wilderpeople], it really sums up what life is like in New Zealand, or what our sensibilities, our sense of humor, how we come together, how easy it would be, feels like. You know, we have a small population and so you know the bizarreness of the police getting involved in this manhunt, how the men... And then eventually, the army all get intwines.

  Rhys Darby

  Army, Men, Police

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• When I get my feelings hurt, or when things scare me, or freak out my sensibilities, or when my feathers get ruffled, it takes me aback, of course, but then I think, I'm grateful that I have a mind that can want more for people and want more for the planet. It's not that hard. It's really quite simple.

  Rose McGowan

  Hurt, Grateful, Thinking

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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