#sensibility

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#aware #director #going #help #mostly

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

#going #good #good writing #i #i think

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#away #beyond #bounds #carried #deeply

I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album. ↗

— Catie Curtis

#always #because #bring #certain #coming

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#artist #deepens #great #growing #his

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility. ↗

— James Wolcott

#never-ending #sensibility #source #stars #tabloid

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. ↗

— Jane Austen

#women #sorrow

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#adult #any #choruses #hook #i

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#girly #grew #i #kind #prejudice

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #destroy #humane #irresistibly