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I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women. -- Richard Dawkins
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. -- Karen Armstrong
When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in. -- Penn Jillette
Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting. -- Steve Carell
Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral. -- Christopher Eccleston
Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply. -- PJ Harvey
I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object? -- Max Perutz
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering. -- Jacqueline Woodson
What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has. -- Len Wein
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience -- Judd Nelson
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal. -- C. S. Lewis
My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level. -- Kiefer Sutherland
And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it. -- Matt Stone
For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man. -- Kurt Russell
I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic and relevatory-here is the full chaos of life. An amazing talent. -- Janet Fitch
With years of experience doing whatever it takes to get to the bottom of each story, I am looking forward to covering the stories in the human dimension and impart the passion and visceral reactions the audience seeks -- Geraldo Rivera
We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people. -- Dan Pallotta
If you can get an audience to identify themselves with a character, they will subconsciously feel that their own lives are in danger. People tend to pay attention in situations like that. I think fear is the easiest, and most visceral, emotion to activate in an audience. -- David Hayter
The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine. -- Scott Westerfeld
I heard Joby Talbot's Hovercraft piece for orchestra and felt its immediate physical impact - visceral, unsettling, hungry and direct. These short five minutes became our keystone to unlocking a strangely seductive score that tensions the aggressive force of the White Stripes with the enigmatic beauty of Talbot's own compositions. -- Wayne McGregor
Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death. -- Don Ed Hardy
Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment. -- Sarah Dessen
The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special. -- Antoine Predock
Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral. -- Kelly McGillis
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'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me. -- Brendan Fletcher
It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience. -- Maya Beiser
The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible. -- Penn Jillette
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience. -- Judd Nelson
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. -- Joel Salatin
To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction. -- Louis C. K.
My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen. -- Penn Jillette
Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart. -- E. L. Konigsburg
I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting. -- Rodney Mullen
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I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience. -- Shawn Levy
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It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing. -- Natalie Dormer
I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society. -- Linton Kwesi Johnson
Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff. -- Skrillex
Acting is kind of difficult to intellectualize - it's a far more visceral experience. It's really hard to be able to think about and then employ these kind of esoteric notions of this person's backstory and try to weave it in somehow. It's just kind of impossible. -- Jesse Eisenberg
Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction. -- Bob McDonnell
For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary. -- Bill Plympton
The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special. -- Antoine Predock
The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese. -- Mae Whitman
Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief. -- Orson Scott Card
The most visceral expression of emotion in music. -- Milo Aukerman
Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption. -- Georg Baselitz
I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life. -- Israel Horovitz
I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply. -- P. J. Harvey
The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive. -- Ridley Scott
It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous. -- Carrie Brownstein
I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions. --
Amores Perros and Once Were Warriors had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me. -- Brendan Fletcher
There is a visceral dislike of George Bush, and it's going to bring these guys together. -- Terry McAuliffe
You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing. -- Andy Serkis
The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum -- Dean Cavanagh
I think this whole Billy Bush thing just pushed women over the edge because it's so visceral. -- Kathleen Hanna
Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system. -- Wolf Kahn
I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words. -- Mark Heard
Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written. -- Tom Riley
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God." -- Joel Salatin
Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling. -- Dave Gibbons
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
Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience. -- James Cameron
The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I'd exchanged more saliva than sentences. -- Tammara Webber
Obviously, nobody chooses not to have kids because they'd rather sleep in late. It's a very visceral decision, and it's a complicated decision. -- Meghan Daum
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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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
What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity. He said: One hand, one million dollars, no tears. -- Michael Lewis
I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise. -- Joe Satriani
Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable. -- Michael Haneke
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
Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one. -- Cate Blanchett
I don't think anyone knows why people like [Twilight]. I don't think even the fans know why they connect with it the way they do. It's a visceral thing. -- Robert Pattinson
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
I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic. -- Alex Timbers
Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation. -- Tomas Borge
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
Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their responsibilities as scholars, Clio frequently takes a back seat. -- Thomas A. Bailey
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
Instead of catching ourselves after we first felt angry, we develop a visceral sensitivity to what's happening within us in the moment & through mindfulness, we can shape our reaction right away. -- Sharon Salzberg
When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role? -- Emily Blunt
I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last. -- Todd Rundgren
There's nothing worse than when someone takes a community education course and becomes an expert on how yoga is the best way to burn the visceral fat that's housed deep in your abdomen. -- Dan John
I like for people to figure things out for themselves. It's not like I have the right answer, but if I have a visceral reaction to something, I'm sure that other people will, too. -- Charlie Kaufman
There's a great energy and drive that takes precedence in a lot of rock and pop. It's about making a strong visceral connection. That's something that I think great classical music can have, too. -- Joshua Roman
You don't have to tell a child not to bully. You know, you talk at kids, they don't hear you, but when you give them a visceral experience, then they have something to remember. -- Goldie Hawn
I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect. -- Aunjanue Ellis
You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time. -- Dan Mangan
In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms. -- Maynard Webb

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