Quotes About Reaction

At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.

Preserving that privacy between a writer and the work is important. You have to shut out all those voices that have reacted to your work.

While we were in the middle of 'Avatar' we got a lot of volatile reaction from fans. They were very upset with the direction we were taking Zuko.

'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

If I go to a movie and it's particularly violent, and people are leaving the theatre ready to vomit, we're sitting there with our popcorn just chuckling.

I love Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke, but if I'm not in the right frame of mind to watch their work, I feel upset after watching it.

I was always a little skeptical of how voters would react to my name.

I think that when voters react negatively to trade and investment, they are really expressing their angst about the pace of technological change.

Pre-poll surveys receive different reaction in the media among voters and political parties. For example, the more undecided voters are, the greater the role and effect of pre-poll surveys. Similarly, greater the decline of the party system, the more influential their role.

It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

It takes a lot to shock me.

Sometimes I hate a shoe in seconds.

When I walk down the street people shout from their cars and their vans.

Well, I've shown the art of counter-punching throughout my career.

If something's awful, I find it funny. If something's funny, I find it funny. It's my natural, go-to place.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

Everything I say, I expect backlash from it.

There's a time to play and a time not to play. Just don't catch me on a bad day or you're going to get something that you're not going to like.

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.

I can write a love song or a ballad, or when I read something and it pisses me off, I know how to go in.

I fell asleep during some ballet once.