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A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response. -- Kim Jong Il
Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty. -- Emanuel Ax
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. -- J. Paul Getty
We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response. -- Ozwald Boateng
Caddyshack' touched people; so did 'Tron.' 'Caddyshack' is a lifestyle, and 'Tron' is more religious, spiritual, but both are very emotional responses. -- Cindy Morgan
I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that way, driven by some kind of emotional response. -- Conor Oberst
There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life. -- Corin Nemec
Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected. -- Kristanna Loken
It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place. -- Corin Nemec
In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response. -- Jennifer Warnes
Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing. -- Mike Simpson
There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response. -- Diablo Cody
Having an authentic emotional response is always a positive thing. -- Yael Cohen
Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response. -- April Greiman
What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges -- Jane McGonigal
True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason. -- Dalai Lama
As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music. -- Colin Greenwood
When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters. -- Katie Holmes
It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies. -- Thomas S. Buechner
An exceptionally positive emotional response indicates that you're summoning the divine energy of intention and allowing that energy to flow to you in nonresistant manner. -- Wayne Dyer
If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask. -- Charlie Cox
The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress... and the opposite of the fight or flight response. -- Herbert Benson
I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental. -- Paul Simon
The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter. -- Harold Lasswell
Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves. -- Gary Zukav
I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise. -- Felicity Jones
All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it. -- Jim Crace
The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can't pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can't make you read a sentence twice and then look sightlessly out of the window. -- Peter Temple
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The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn't just level off - it just gives up, resets itself to zero. -- Alastair Reynolds
Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing. -- Mike Simpson
It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona. -- Sonia Sotomayor
When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have to deal with your own emotional response to what's going on, but you take on everybody else's emotional response. -- Laura Linney
Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy. -- Virginia Postrel
It takes 90 seconds from the time we have a thought that is going to stimulate an emotional response. When we have an emotional response it results in a physiological dumpage into our bloodstream. It flushes through and out of our body in less than 90 seconds. -- Jill Bolte Taylor
I listen to music two ways: As a person, you have an instinctive, personal, emotional response. But as a music supervisor, you have a secondary response, which is, 'Will this sit well under dialogue?' 'Can people die to this?' 'Can people kiss to this? -- Alexandra Patsavas
Ice cream is the perfect buffer, because you can do things in a somewhat lighthearted way. Plus, people have an emotional response to ice cream; it's more than just food. So I think when you combine caring, and eating wonderful food, it's a very powerful combination. -- Jerry Greenfield
I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is. -- David Carson
I listen to music two ways: As a person, you have an instinctive, personal, emotional response. But as a music supervisor, you have a secondary response, which is, 'Will this sit well under dialogue?' 'Can people die to this?' 'Can people kiss to this?' -- Alexandra Patsavas
We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light. -- Anthony Marra
But the bigots always see those whom they hate as morally corrupt, as if they confuse their own aesthetics of disgust and fear with actual ethical critique, rationalizing their emotional response, and enforcing their moral certainties with passion, establishing them-selves, subtly or brutally, as arbiters of reason. -- Hal Duncan
Where is the video of Kanye [West] telling me he was going to call me 'that b***h' in his song? It doesn't exist because it never happened. You don't get to control someone's emotional response to being called 'that b***h' in front of the entire world. -- Taylor Swift
Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way. -- Tim Burton
True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems. -- Dalai Lama
You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready. -- Stephen Daldry
My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork. -- Janet Echelman
My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever. -- Wilfred Burchett
The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response. -- Daniel Goleman
As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are. -- Lance Loud
When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response. -- Indra Nooyi
The fundamental response to change is not logical, but emotional. -- Tom DeMarco
There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response. -- Brendan Dooling
I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies. -- Oliver James
Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
All defensiveness and emotional tumult is a fear response because of your need for acceptance and ruthless control of the territory of your safe fantasy world. -- Bryant McGill

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