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• To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Liars, Lying, Writing

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• I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and I told him that I thought he had played particularly sensitively that day. I said, "You know, many pianists are brilliant, they strike the keys so well, but somehow you are different." "Ah," he said, "I don't think you should ever strike a key. You should pull the keys with your fingers."

  Andrew Wyeth

  Art, Good Friend, Men

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• Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.

  Emily Carr

  Change, Light, Yellow

  Emily Carr, Michael Breur, Kerry Mason Dodd (1984). “Sunlight in the shadows: the landscape of Emily Carr”

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• I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

  Don Johnson

  Girl, Thinking, Parent

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• The pineal gland of evolutionarily older animals, such as lizards and amphibians, is also called the 'third' eye. Just like the two seeing eyes, the third eye possesses a lens, cornea, and retina. It is light-sensitive and helps regulate body temperature and skin coloration-two basic survival functions related to environmental light.

  Rick Strassman

  Eye, Animal, Two

  Rick Strassman (2000). “DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.

  Timothy Leary

  Responsibility, Brain, Machines

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• We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.

  John S. Pistole

  People, Want, Privacy

  Senate hearing on TSA, full-body scanners, www.cnet.com. November 16, 2010.

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• Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems? Do you realize how demanding it will be to turn yourself into a wildly disciplined, radically curious, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, ingeniously loving, aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lustfully compassionate master of rowdy bliss?

  Rob Brezsny

  Dream, Inspiration, Interesting

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books

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• Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Children, Parent, Belief

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.24, Penguin

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• Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Voice, Silence

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• I'm a really sensitive person. I cry if I miss a cab. I've always worn my emotions on my sleeve. I think it makes life so much better when you can talk about anything.

  Michael Keaton

  Thinking, Sensitive Person, Missing

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• Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.

  Willa Cather

  Unique, Voice, Mind

  1936 Not Under Forty, 'Miss Jewett'.

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• Now keep in mind that I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my sh*t

  Erykah Badu

  Artist, Mind

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• We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Country, Literature, Problem

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• The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Character, Plot

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• A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

  Minor White

  Mind, Photographer, Film

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• [Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.

  Lotte Lenya

  Hands, Brecht, Herring

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• Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant.

  Myrtle Reed

  Anger, Tears, Weapons

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• We're a bit sensitive to blood around here. I'm sure you can understand that.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Blood, Vampire, Bits

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Sex, Issues, Religion

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• William Stillman's Autism and the God Connection is a sensitive and illuminating work which could dramatically change how we view autism.

  Carol Bowman

  Views, Autism, Connections

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• I always say people would rather be nice than right. I like to be nice too, but come on. People frequently ask me, what is my definition of politically correct. My answer is always the same: the elevation of sensitivity over truth. People would rather be nice than right, rather be sensitive than true. Well, being nice and sensitive are important, but they're not more important than being right; they're not more important than the truth.

  Bill Maher

  Nice, People, Important

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• I would probably say I identified more with drama. I'm a really emotional, sensitive person. I'm family-minded and I'm the youngest of four kids. I have nine stepbrothers and sisters. And I love drama. I really do.

  Courteney Cox

  Drama, Kids, Emotional

  "Life imitates art for Courtney Cox Arquette". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.nbcnews.com. May 5, 2004.

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• I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine that I'm an audience member. I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience. There are other types of genre films that I need to be able to direct from the audience, to be right next to you watching the picture being made.

  Steven Spielberg

  Needs, Matter, Able

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• There are a lot of guys who think that if they show weakness or vulnerability they're not sexy anymore or attractive. In my opinion, you can't be too open or too gentle or kind or sensitive. If you really want to work on a relationship and have one that lasts, you have to be willing to go deep into human psychology and emotion. If you don't want to go there, you can be a serial dater, and I guess that's okay, but if you want a relationship with a woman, you have to be introspective and look at yourself and your family and where you've been and where you're going.

  Megan Fox

  Sexy, Thinking, Guy

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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