#emotions

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

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Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#every #greatly #just #role #varies

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

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You know, you don't work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones get out of whack your emotions come up. ↗

— Marie Osmond

#come #emotions #get #happens #hormones

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. ↗

— Richard Powers

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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. ↗

— Tony Robbins

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I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams. ↗

— Princess Diana

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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

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Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

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