Sensibility Quotes - Page 19

• I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.

  Jack Nicholson

  Real, Stupid, People

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Giving, Purpose

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• I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

  Frank Oz

  Years, Nine, British

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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• Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Character, Eye, World

  "Go Forth (Vol. 16)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. October 4, 2013.

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• In childhood we all have ... a far higher sensibility for April and April evenings - a heartache for them, which in riper years is gradually and irretrievably consoled.

  Alice Meynell

  Years, Heartache, Childhood

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.445, eBookIt.com

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• Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.

  George Sand

  Country, Art, Lying

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• Sensibility is the power of woman.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Women

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• These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that it affects their works. Of course, artists need sensibility; sensibility towards their environment and their community, but when they are stirred enough by their experiences in their society they can create their art in small studios.

  Guity Novin

  Art, Order, Community

  Negin magazine, No. 77, 1971.

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• I like weather better than climate. The dry season is a gold vacuum; but the rainy season has change, which is weather. And while climate may create a race, weather creates the temper and sensibility of the individual.

  Gertrude Diamant

  Race, Weather, Gold

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• I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

  Goes On, Slippery Slope, Intrigue

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

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• The sensibilities and the emotions of Muslims must be taken into consideration in the context in which we live today.

  Anjem Choudary

  Taken, Live For Today, Emotion

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high. And because there's always a wolf at the door, the emotions are high; the romance, the sexuality, friendships, and relationships. You don't know if the guy kissing you one minute is going to bite you the next. This heightens all of the sensibilities and emotions, and therefore, it sings to me. And that's where the music comes from.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Character, Kissing, Doors

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• When the theater is gothic it matches the sensibility of the show. It's also very intimate. The audience is very close to the performers. The show is scary and the scary stuff always works best with an intimacy with the audience. And the show is erotic, and I think erotic always works best when it's close to the audience, as well.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Thinking, Scary, Erotic

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• Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

  Jennifer Stone

  Greed, Grace, Culture

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.

  Ben Macintyre

  Real, Mean, Elevation

  Ben Macintyre (2013). “Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche”, p.195, A&C Black

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• If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

  Bill Vaughan

  Nice, Thinking, Class

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• I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility.

  Romain Duris

  Trying, Energy, Fragile

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• I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.

  Janet Scudder

  Believe, Artist, Done

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• Women endowed with remarkable sensibilities enjoy much; but they also suffer much.

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  Suffering, Emotion, Enjoy

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• My 'Idea of India' calls not just for tolerance, but a celebration of all points of view. Where the sensibilities of every individual are respected

  Narendra Modi

  Views, Ideas, Tolerance

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• Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

  Tony Judt

  Responsibility, Past, Self Questioning

  Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.114, Penguin

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• Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.

  Kristen Stewart

  Brother, Asian, Different

  Interview with Jon Favreau, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2009.

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• If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in the positive ways - if there was no slavery and the abolition of slavery, there would be no jazz.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Abolition Of Slavery, Negative, Would Be

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with recorders and everything and I listened to a lot of jazz, which gave me a sensibility for melody.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Father, Littles, Firsts

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• Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Purpose, Morality

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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