"Revenge was the emptiest of emotions. Apparently it motivated people to do the stupidest things as well."
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"The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility."
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"You can feel an emotion; just don't think that it's so important."
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"It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety."
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"for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them."
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"Seve wore his emotions on his sleeve. You could see how much the guy cared about winning."
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"A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt."
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"I was raised that emotion was a good thing."
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"Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing."
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"When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice."
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"Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind."
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"The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well."
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"When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit."
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"Deadly emotions, buried alive, never die."
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"As actors, emotion is the sand in the sandbox for us. Without emotion, there's nothing to play - and we are playing. We know that. Whether you think we do or not, we know that."
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"I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths."
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"The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength."
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"Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion."
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"Trying to convey an emotion through words is not easy."
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