- Nov 07, 2020
Emotional Quotes
Feelings, taken seriously and sometimes not.
This set ranges from praise for a memoir's understated emotional pull to a comic complaint about being emotionally shut down, showing how differently the word can land. Related theme: Status.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids, they take a lot from me and I always come from an intellectual place. Like intellectually, not emotionally, and most people come from an emotional place and it's unfortunate.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to like songs that are very emotional, that strike a chord with me emotionally.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amygdala is like a point guard in the emotional part of your middle brain. When it is overwhelmed, it hijacks you away from being able to access your upper rational brain and think and assess what to do. It essentially disables your ability to think.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cancer is an emotional disease.
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- Nov 07, 2020