"There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect."
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"When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence."
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"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living."
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"Confusion now hath made his masterpiece."
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"Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots."
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"Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions."
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"Without emotion there is no beauty"
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"Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand."
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"No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions."
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"Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings."
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"Jealousy’s a weak emotion."
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"Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them."
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"No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise."
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"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion."
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"[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B."
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"Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people."
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"For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them."
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"Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point."
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"You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish."
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"Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions"
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