"There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind"
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"My mind moves very fast. I go through a lot of moods and emotions."
"The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought."
"Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion."
"Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time."
"Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely."
"Emotion is changed by motion."
"Of course, having a lack of emotions saves you from doing a big crying scene in the movie or something. I would try to remove myself from any situation before a scene or something like that, and just sit and think about absolutely nothing."
"No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow."
"The value of emotions comes from sharing them, not just having them."
"I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film."
"I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't."
"Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion."
"Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged."
"The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept."
"Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy.""
"...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture."
"Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on."
"The subconscious mind is more susceptible to influence by impulses of thought mixed with 'feeling' or emotion, than by those originating solely in the reasoning portion of the mind."
"You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person."