Sensibility Quotes - Page 19

• Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

  Larry Wilmore

  Ghetto, Style, Hollywood

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think our sensibility is not modernist anymore, that is, sensibility of people who are interested in art and literature.

  Louis Menand

  Art, Thinking, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I moved to Portland because Modest Mouse is there. I didn't necessarily mean to live there permanently, but I've got a really good feeling for it. The sensibility there really suits me. I happened to have grown up in Manchester, a city that was a pretty cool place to be a musician. It's close to Portland in a lot of ways.

  Johnny Marr

  Mean, Cities, Feelings

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Every two to three weeks, I was changing around my room. My room was made out of nothing, basically - a magazine, a little radio, a little bed - and I had the sensibility to put things together and match things in a certain way so that they were very special.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Two, Together, Special

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I want the reader to be transported. The novel is a big, complicated, unknowable thing before it's written.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Unity, Want, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've seen it personally that people have a natural sensibility to Arabic script. I don't know it if it's because of the shape, I don't know what it is in this script that makes it so universal. But even if you don't understand it, you still have this feeling; you can feel the piece of art in front of you.

  eL Seed

  Art, People, Feelings

  Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.

  John Hodgman

  Degrees, Internet, Constant

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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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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• Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Art, Men, Expression

  Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, Waltraud Suzuki (1983). “Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education”, p.82, Alfred Music

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• Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

  Billy Sheehan

  Musical, Fans, Enjoy

  "USA Today Online Chat With Billy Sheehan". www.billysheehan.com. August 21, 2001.

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• I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being.

  Claire Danes

  Growing Up, Understanding, Sound

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• In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

  Brit Hume

  Taken, America, Literature

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• Sensibility is the power of woman.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Women

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• Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

  Bill Bryson

  Food, Effort, Drug

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.25, VNR AG

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a concept of human nature that places acquisitiveness, self-interest, and utility at the center of the human experience."

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Self, Competition, Hierarchy

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• I've been a lifetime Democrat, and I'm re-registering this year as an independent. It's strictly [because] my party, that I've been affiliated with all these years, doesn't stand for anything that I stand for anymore. They've lost any sensibility that they had, and they've allowed all the kooks in, so I'm going independent.

  Toby Keith

  Party, Independent, Years

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• As the field of coaching finds its way to becoming a mature discipline, James Flaherty's dedicated field research, study, and sound articulation offers a definitive ground and a sensibility of genuine care. At the core this book offers a way of thinking about human beings that makes action and practice central to learning. This is a no-nonsense, generous, pragmatic book that belongs on the shelf every coach, novice or veteran.

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler

  Book, Thinking, Practice

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• The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, People, Purses

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• Of course, it’s true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you’re feeling down the the landscape seems darker too - you see things through the filter of your own sensibility. But the things themselves, out there, they don’t change. They existed, and that’s all there is to it.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Sunset, Feeling Down, Feelings

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.181, Melville House

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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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