Sensibility Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 think that most people have deeply creative sensibilities.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• 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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• We can try to gain some of the sensibility of some of the indigenous populations of the world or our predecessors 800 years ago. We can laugh at them as being naive and unsophisticated, but unless we can gain that sensibility that there has to be rights of nature as Bolivians and others put it, then we're going to be destroyed.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Years, Laughing

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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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• It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here?

  Northrop Frye

  Important, Identity, Problem

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham, Jean O'Grady, David Staines (2003). “Northrop Frye on Canada”, p.346, University of Toronto Press

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• perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems to share: that at a certain point one has enough, that you can derive as much pleasure from a Picasso hanging in a museum as from one that's hanging in your den, that you can get an awfully good meal in a restaurant for less than twenty dollars, and that once your drapes cost more than the average American's yearly salary, then you can afford to pay a bit more in taxes.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Museums, Average

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• I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Film, Release

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Because of his supernatural outlook, he could always work very calmly and effectively and finish things on time. This was a reflection of the reality of a harmonious and attractive blend of prayer and action. It clearly showed that the sensibilities of a contemplative soul in no way lead to agitation or nervousness.

  Salvador Bernal

  Prayer, Work, Reflection

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• Frequently parents forget that children are people. I don't try to treat Kristen as an adult, but I do try to treat her as a person, with a child's sensibilities.

  Kent McCord

  Children, Pregnancy, People

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• The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point of critique is not justification but a different way of feeling: another sensibility

  Gilles Deleuze

  Men, Feelings, Overcoming

  Gilles Deleuze (2006). “Nietzsche and Philosophy”, p.94, Columbia University Press

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