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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.
I see Jughead as being generally this really rational dude, this anchor of sensibility in a world of boy/girl-crazy friends.
Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.
Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.
If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.
Immanence, or complicity, allows the writer to be a kind of shock absorber of the culture: to reflect back its 'whatness,' refracted through the sensibility of his consciousness.
I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.
I am huge fan of Australian comedy. 'Strictly Ballroom' is one of my favorite movies. Definitely the British Commonwealth's sensibility is where I draw a lot of my influences.
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.
I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.
Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.
A successful director is someone who has the combination of skills that you can learn, but there's also an intuitive sensibility that they bring to it, that they've developed on their own and that is singular to them.
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.
The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.
You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.
I am interested in the highbrow/lowbrow synthesis. My sensibility, I am proud to say, is middlebrow.
I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves.
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.
When you're working with friends, I think there's a certain sensibility that you share, and it's easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.
So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.
Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.
When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they used back then, but they had a hipster sensibility. They were a little irreverent.
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
Can a person be inspirational? Does a person have global sensibility? That's the hardest thing to find.
I've been playing the Wolfenstein games since I was a kid, and feel that their outlandish sensibility has deeply influenced my own writing and directing throughout my career.
A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.
My sensibility is such that I automatically get drawn to films that have a good story, good characterization.
Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It's a joyful approach to darkness.
When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.
Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.
Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
Which actress wouldn't want to work with Vishal Bharadwaj? I have worked with him before and I really like his sensibility.
There's simply no better company out there doing mobile travel apps with the same level of design sensibility and utility as Mobiata.
Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a very sensitive, interesting guy.
