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I'm a sucker for the big, gruff, distant, emotionally closed-off hero who sloooowly warms up to the feisty, awesome, sweet heroine.
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
I'd gone to New York at an early age, and I got beat up a little bit, emotionally. So I thought I'd go home and go to music school.
The most important thing when you're shooting difficult scenes is that you have a supportive team who will buck you up emotionally.
A person doing experimental music must be responsible for the results of the experiments. They could be very dangerous emotionally.
I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved with these characters. I still care about them.
Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
I believe you should be comfortable in your skin no matter what you go through - emotionally or whatever - as long as you're healthy.
I think there's a huge pivot in popular music, and just in culture in general, towards art that is vulnerable and emotionally honest.
What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.
When you are healthy mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually - when you're doing well, you're likely to do good things in life.
With 'Atonement,' I put a lot of pressure on myself, and then I made an advert for Chanel, which 'broke the camel's back' emotionally.
If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
It's pretty cathartic for me to write a letter to God and tell him what I'm praying for that day or what I'm going through emotionally.
To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.
I always have to prepare myself emotionally to go to a party. It's a little overwhelming for me, but it's a great place to meet people.
Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.
Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.
Everything I write is about big feelings. What I care about is trying to be brave enough to feel how you feel and to be emotionally true.
I no longer practice medicine, but I can say that, for me, medicine was easier - and certainly less emotionally turbulent - than writing.
If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.
Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the reader emotionally.
The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.
Having the young people engaged, involved, and being the leaders themselves is a great way to capture them intellectually and emotionally.
Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick really changed the way one-hour television looked and the depth of how deep it could cut emotionally.
I would love to play roles that continue to challenge and push me in different directions - emotionally, mentally, and physically as well.
In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.
When I made my first decision, come hell or high water, that I would try to be a professional actor, I was burnt. Emotionally, I was burnt.
I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.
When you walk onto any set, it's usually primarily men. Which can be weird, especially when you're doing something emotionally challenging.
Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?
But you're not really emotionally mature in your 20s. Well, we weren't. You don't say anything, you just bottle it up and then it builds up.
In India, nothing is accomplished by policy changes alone. Unless people can relate emotionally to something, nothing happens on the ground.
When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.'
A buddy of mine is doing a documentary on decisions, and they're not based on a ton of logic. It's mostly how you relate to them emotionally.
Sports is a bunch of people gathering around, watching something that they're not actually connected to - they're just emotionally connected.
It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.
Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.
A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say, 'Wow.'
For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.
No, I don't think songwriting is emotionally challenging - I feel like it's almost a way to sort through your emotions and put them out there.
I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.
I've been in scenes with my brother where I've been absolutely emotionally terrified to go somewhere. But because he's my brother, I feel safe.
This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.
I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.
I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.