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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
    tags: emotions, life, spiritual
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    Mae West
    “Sex is an emotion in motion.”
    ― Mae West
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    Horace Walpole
    “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
    ― Horace Walpole
    tags: comedy, emotions, life, perspective, thinking, tragedy
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Anne Frank
    “But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: emotions, feelings
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    Jennifer Donnelly
    “I don't like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It's the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. It's bad news. The worst. It's sharp sticks and cherry bombs. When hope shows up, it's only a matter of time until someone gets hurt.”
    ― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
    tags: emotions, hope, teen
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    Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    “I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.”
    ― Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    tags: emotions, sadness
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    Jean Racine
    “Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
    ― Jean Racine
    tags: comedy, emotions, feeling, life, thinking, tragedy
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    Alain de Botton
    “The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
    ― Alain de Botton
    tags: emotions, film, humanity, philosophy
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    Deepak Chopra
    “Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.”
    ― Deepak Chopra
    tags: emotions, free, sex
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    “Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...”
    ― Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
    tags: emotions, fire, love, politeness
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    Maria V. Snyder
    “The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.”
    ― Maria V. Snyder, Touch of Power
    tags: emotions, love
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    Judith Orloff
    “How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation.”
    ― Judith Orloff
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    P.D. James
    “Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.”
    ― P.D. James, The Children of Men
    tags: emotions, experience, feel, pain
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    “Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way.”
    ― Tim Burton, Burton on Burton
    tags: emotions, movies
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  • #16
    “But she knows she has a curse on her,
    a curse she cannot win.
    For if someone gets too close to her,

    the pins stick further in.”
    ― tim burton
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  • #17
    “When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.”
    ― Tim Burton
    tags: tim-burton
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    “I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.”
    ― Tim Burton
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    “I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.”
    ― Tim Burton
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  • #20
    “Mad Matter: "Have I gone mad?"
    Alice: "I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
    ― Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland: Based on the Motion Picture Directed by Tim Burton
    tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland, lewis-caroll, mad-hatter, movie-quote
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  • #21
    “One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.”
    ― Tim Burton, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: An Invitation to the Wedding
    tags: animation, bonham-carter, depp, helena, johnny, stop, the-bride-corpse, tim
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    “Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.”
    ― Tim Burton
    tags: burton, creativity, inspirational, passion, passionate, tim-burton
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  • #23
    “Can a heart break, once it's stopped beating?”
    ― Tim Burton, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: The Illustrated Story
    tags: corpse-bride
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  • #24
    “If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.”
    ― Tim Burton
    tags: outsider
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    “Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.”
    ― Tim Burton
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    Tite Kubo
    “What is this "heart"? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?
    ~ulquiorra”
    ― tite kubo
    tags: bleach, emotions, heart, love
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Feelings are something you have; not something you are.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: anger, confusion, emotions, feelings, hate, identity, illness, joy, love, overcoming, paranoia, self, suspician, who-you-are
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    Johnny Depp
    “She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.”
    ― Johnny Depp
    tags: angelina-jolie, beauty, deep, perfect, poem, smart, the-tourist, woman
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    Dave Barry
    “There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.”
    ― Dave Barry
    tags: deep, judging, looking-deeper, ocean, thoughtful
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    “She was strange and beautiful and those were human qualities that I had never seen Weaved together before. She became terrifying to me, not because I feared who she was, but for the sake of love, I feared what she could do to me.”
    ― Christopher Poindexter
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