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• Nudity and sex scenes are two completely different things. Nudity you can kind of get used to, but not when there is movement and relating involved. The sex scenes are very uncomfortable because that's something to be protected, so you have a visceral reaction to not exploit that.

  Lucy Lawless

  Sex, Two, Different

  "Lucy Lawless Interview SPARTACUS: GODS OF THE ARENA". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 21, 2011.

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• Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

  Georg Baselitz

  Art, Eruption, Vulgar

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• In TV and film, a little goes a long way. I see the show as horror so a lot of the [violence] is suggested. But it is violent. It is gory. I don't see any need to up the gore. Just to keep it as real and visceral as possible.

  Glen Mazzara

  Real, Long, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Self, Forever, Honor

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• For an acrobat, the acting concepts of 'risk', 'a life or death situation' and 'trusting your partner' are visceral. If an actor loses focus, the scene dies; if an acrobat loses focus, their partner might die.

  Jeff Raz

  Focus, Risk, Acting

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• I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.

  Carol Friedman

  Cameras, Stubborn, Assistants

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• My A-number one visceral fear is speed. More than knives or snakes or confined spaces. Speed. I won't even go on a motor boat if I can help it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Knives, Snakes, Numbers

  "Sloane Crosley on rubber animals and seeing through celebrity crushes". Interview with Ryan Vlastelica, www.avclub.com. October 1, 2015.

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• [W]hen you're shooting a doc, you're trying to class it up because you can. You know, you're trying to make this feel like cinematic experience. And when you're doing fiction you're trying to do the opposite thing you're trying to take this very artificial experience this very artificial experience and make it feel real and visceral.

  John Hyams

  Real, Opposites, Class

  Source: collider.com

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• As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.

  Rockne S. O'Bannon

  Drama, Always Trying, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

  Brit Marling

  Writing, Laughing, Sitting

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• For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Alberto Manguel (2006). “With Borges”, Telegram Books

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• Las Vegas was like that. There was a visceral attraction here. The bold promise of money and sex. But the first was a broken promise, a mirage, and the second was fraught with danger, expense, physical and mental risk. It was where the real gambling took place in this town.

  Michael Connelly

  Sex, Real, Vegas

  Michael Connelly (2011). “Michael Connelly - The Harry Bosch Collection (ebook)”, p.922, Hachette UK

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• Love is visceral and real. Love is physical. It embraces all things. Love doesn't space you out or take you out of this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Yoga, Love Is

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• You have a visceral, physical response to being in [the real] places, and the sights and sounds and the smells just bring something else out in you. You're not having to fake that or imagine that. It's there. It becomes as much an act of something you bounce off as the other people you're working with.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Real, Sight, Smell

  "Michael Mann, Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Leehom Wang, and Tang Wei Talk Blackhat, the Genesis of the Film, Creating a New Film Genre, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 13, 2015.

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• We consider the Holocaust as being a sort of strange event taking place on another planet; we never understood in a visceral way that this is something that took place in the heart of man. That's something that you can feel, the genocidal tendency is within human nature. It seems that if we forget about this, our future is also compromised.

  Laszlo Nemes

  Heart, Men, Holocaust

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

  Wolf Kahn

  Cezanne, Information, Painting

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• Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

  Joel Salatin

  World, Lessons, Way

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• Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.

  Stacy London

  Real, Impact, Light

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• People change based on what they feel, not what they know. Which means that understanding all that advice doesn't matter if there's no deep, profound, visceral awareness of why it's important.

  Mehmet Oz

  Mean, People, Profound

  "Dr. Oz Talks to Oprah About Food, Family and What It Really Means to Be Healthy". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• What I think is really great about this movie [42], that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, People, Chance

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• I knew that there was an aspect to this story that was beyond the typical and that it was something very important about America, about our culture, and about bringing a story to a new generation that perhaps didn't know the details of it, (and) hadn't had the visceral experience that this film is [42].

  Harrison Ford

  America, Important, Typical

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• I'm not a big believer in slavishly following research. It's one of the things that's wrong with television is that if you throw the whole - the decision-making process to the research department, you're not making any instinctive, visceral judgments about programs, which are show business.

  Grant Tinker

  Decision, Research, Television

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The most visceral expression of emotion in music.

  Milo Aukerman

  Expression, Emotion

  Source: vandalamagazine.com

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• Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.

  Tom Riley

  Stage, Imaginative, Written

  Source: collider.com

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• You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making an illustration.

  Mark Alan Stamaty

  Reality, Illustration, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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