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I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'm not in the mood for. -- Rachel Bilson
I act when I'm not in the mood. -- T. Harv Eker
If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right. -- J. D. Salinger
Don't force yourself to go party if you're not in the mood. -- Hannah Hart
A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise. -- Janet Evanovich
There are millions of ways to not be writing. You say you're not in the mood, you'll pick it up tomorrow. -- Rod Serling
When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while? -- Gunter Grass
I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it. -- Samaire Armstrong
We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it halfway, we easily become indirect and apathetic. -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act. -- T. Harv Eker
Sometimes I can be tactful and sometimes not. It all depends on the mood I'm in. -- Melanie Brown
I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything. -- Ned Beauman
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. -- Marcel Marceau
When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have. -- Faith Hill
I am president and do not have the right to give in to emotions. I have bad moods, very bad moods, but I never feel despair. -- Dmitry Medvedev
Revisiting 'Leave It to Beaver,' and seeing it in the pristine visual clarity of digital restoration, are mood-altering if not quite mind-altering experiences, very much for the better. -- Tom Shales
We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it. -- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day. -- Daniel Kahneman
The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and what's morally right or ethically right. -- Meredith Brooks
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Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping. -- Nat King Cole
Sometimes I get in writing moods and I want to write a song every couple of days. Then sometimes I may not write a song for three weeks. It's just according to how it's hitting me at the time. -- Ashton Shepherd
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause. -- Arthur Henderson
I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional. -- Donald Miller
My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as most, rather more mood-driven. My interest in the supernatural is a complication - though I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts. -- Graham Joyce
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold sometimes; it rains sometimes; even if everything in your life is great, bad weather can set the mood. You can write songs in New York because it's not always perfect. To write a good song, things can't be perfect. -- Tom Odell
The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for all moods and many different cultures. Its message is not buried in religious jargon only accessible to either believers or scholars, but reflects the issues that people struggle with in daily life. -- John Drane
I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need to tell the reader everything. But one hopes that the writer's belief in his characters is evident in the telling, just as the mood created in the writer's mind comes through in the atmosphere of the scene described. -- Edward Rutherfurd
Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood. -- Cecelia Ahern
Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being. -- Frank Herbert
I am not in a bad mood. Everyone is just.. annoying. -- Wiz Khalifa
Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure. -- Van Day Truex
It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood. -- Matthew Woodring Stover
My alter ego does not look in too great a mood today. -- Simon de Pury
The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood". -- Laura Schlessinger
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television. -- Mark Russell
Not letting our mood affect the way we treat people is a forgotten sunnah -- Nouman Ali Khan
Dreams, remembered or not, can color our mood for a good part of the day. -- Stephen LaBerge
A performance does not capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment. -- Unarine Ramaru
Try not to catch a girl when she's not in a great mood, tired or distracted. -- Elizabeth Tan
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A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood. -- Myrtle Reed
That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me. -- Garth Stein
Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm. -- Charlotte Bronte
Exercise is really for the brain, not the body. It affects mood, vitality, alertness, and feelings of well-being. -- John Ratey
I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either. -- Jon Bon Jovi
You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes. -- Maisie Williams
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. -- Ernest Hemingway
I'm not happy if other people aren't enjoying themselves, so I try to lighten the mood as much as I can. -- Tom Weston-Jones
There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both. -- Hal Borland
My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence. -- Vano Merabishvili
It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined. -- Alan Bennett
I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often. -- Brian Wilson
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not. -- Max Lucado
I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction? -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood. -- Boman Irani
That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Your thoughts and actions not only influence your mood, but the moods of all you cross paths with. Thinking lovingly. Do lovingly. Be a messenger for love. -- Karen Salmansohn
Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil. -- Michel de Montaigne
When my cats arent happy, Im not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood. -- Rick Perlstein

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