Theresa Breslin Quotes

In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.

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• You can't get emotional about your work.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Work
  • You
  • Emotional

• Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Emotional

• I'm pretty much a dinosaur in the studio. I like things hand-drawn, even today. The story artists use Cintiqs, but I'm the only person who hasn't completely converted to computers. I like the Cintiq, but there's something about the raw emotional power of using paper and pencil.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Power
  • Today
  • Pretty

• For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Home
  • Character
  • Book

• There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Death
  • You
  • Emotional

• I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Challenge
  • Stories
  • Characters

• The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Will
  • Order
  • Divine

• When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Support
  • Emotional

• The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Time
  • World
  • School

• The history of Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without its underlying emotional meanders. The emotional frameworks of the loss of Palestine for the Arab-Islamic world touched deep scars that go back to the Crusades, symbolizing a proof of Arab-Islamic decay, political impotence, and perceived (British/French) betrayal and antagonism.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • World
  • History
  • Political

• Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Order

• I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• A woman living with her mother has limited freedom; a man living with his mother has limited freedom and limited respect. For most men, the vacuum (of no support system) is so devastating, they’d rather agree with their wife than express their feelings and risk emotional withdrawal.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Freedom

• A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Work
  • Music
  • Words

• I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• I have great mood swings, maybe because of playing lots of different characters as I do. I'm like a gymnast whose muscles get too stretched. I've got better at it, but I have a lot of emotional energy.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Great
  • Different
  • Energy

• I think audiences sometimes mistakenly assume a quality performance comes from some great emotional disturbance rather than really intense concentration. Concentration and flow is what it's all about.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Great
  • Quality
  • Emotional

• The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Women
  • Family
  • Words

• What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.

  

  James Gray
  • Character
  • Action
  • Emotional

• One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

  

  Michael Korda
  • Way
  • Goals
  • Momentum

• I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This is a market that we've been living, breathing and eating for our entire lives - one where a huge void currently exists. Favored Nations is a long-term commitment.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Long
  • Artist
  • Commitment

• It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Giving
  • Driving

• You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society. Live among dispirited humans as the vanguard of peace and good news. Remember, our Commander in Chief has no use for tin soldiers.

  

  Carl F. H. Henry
  • Remember
  • Sick
  • Humans

• In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth.

  

  Theresa Breslin
  • Emotional
  • Stories
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