If it’s a good LP, you’ll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don’t get that tingle, you’d better take it straight down to the record exchange.
For the second series of ‘Luxury Comedy’, I tried to drop the ‘Noel Fielding’ from it. I thought that would make it less like a solo project and more like a show. Also, it would probably have been easier to take the reaction to the first series if it had been a project rather than my name and face!
The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.
By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot’s demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.
I think there’s a knee-jerk reaction to things from parents.
I take audience reaction very seriously.
I became a conservative for the first dozen years of my professional life in Berkeley, Calif., and it was a reaction against political correctness, so I get it.
I’ve had more reaction to ‘Peaky’ than anything. People react really intensely.
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
When you watch movies in Britain, the reaction when people hate a movie is… they just politely get up and leave at the end. And when they love a movie… they just politely get up and leave at the end.
We’re coming into a new generation of women where there’s the submissive woman, and then our reaction to it is, ‘No, I’m a man, too, and I’m masculine,’ and then we fight against it, which isn’t the answer, either.
I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.
‘Crash’ is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We’re distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating ‘Swann’s Way.’ There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn’t want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust’s very long sentences.
I haven’t planned a reaction on anything… If you do, you’ve screwed up.
Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment.
I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.
When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.
Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.
Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
I remember ‘The Shepherd’s Dog’ record being not necessarily a political record, but a reaction to socio-political situations in America. And it didn’t manifest itself as protest or propaganda songs, but there’s a lot of surreal imagery that was born out of really me being surprised Bush got re-elected in ’04.
I started taking medication to weaken my immune system because that is what was attacking my kidneys. The problem was when I went on different medication, I suffered side effects. And the side effects caused ‘moon face,’ where my face swelled up. It was a reaction.
Hate is a learned reaction, and it can be unlearned.
In the 21st century, there will probably be a reflex against the disintegration of traditional European culture. What started as a reaction will come full circle, and there will be a return to the roots.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize.
As the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the Queen feels she cannot be seen to smile in church – and her natural reaction is to combat mirth by putting on a stern face.
Even if you were a general in 1945, if you split the revolutionary national unity today, if you are an enemy of the main pillars of the revolution today, then you have become a force of reaction!
I think we’re tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series after seeing the movie they might be disappointed. That there was, you know, that they might have some kind of adverse reaction.
When you have a kid and people go, ‘What a beautiful child,’ it’s the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love.
Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it’s craving for more.
I didn’t expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.
You have to be able to process 1,000 things that are happening at one time and be able to decide the right technique to use. And have the reaction between what your eyes are seeing and what your hands and feet need to do.
There’s a very devoted fan base that really loved ‘T1’ and ‘T2’ and felt burned by ‘T3’ and ‘T4,’ so when we said, ‘We’re going to do it again!’ the reaction was, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa – what do you think you’re doing?’
I will say there is only one caveat as far as ‘Logan’ goes: I got to the end and went, ‘OK, what happens next?’ To me, as an audience member, damn. If you can get to the end of the third act of a trilogy and your reaction is ‘what the hell happens next,’ someone did their job incredibly.
Why we cannot build a system like El Al to be proactive. Why do we have only to react? The shoe bomber – reaction? Take off your shoes. The Nigerian – the body scanner is a result of the Nigerian guy.
Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
When I first heard that I had won the prize, I thought that it was something for myself, that it was something personal, recognition of my writings. But there is such a strong reaction from Chinese people in particular. It’s been very passionate, overwhelming and passionate, Chinese people from all over the world.
I can’t think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there’s been a reaction, there’s been no journalism. It’s cause and effect.
So in the pro wrestling world, everything is massively over the top and every reaction that you do in the ring is kind of corny if we’re honest – it’s not supposed to be serious – it’s a comic book world.
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
I just hope people enjoy ‘Phase’ as much as I’ve enjoyed making it. I hope it’s a good reaction.
What compels the Hindu right’s volcanic reaction to Valentine’s Day? Some of its members have protested that the holiday is the product of a ‘rotten imported culture’ from the West.
There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that’s wrong. Don’t get into a relationship if you can’t be honest.
We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.
Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earth’s most precious gift.
Let’s cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don’t think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I’ve made mistakes – that’s probably one of them.
It’s not me being rude or disrespectful but as I’ve got older I’ve realised I can question people or ask why. Maybe in the past I’ve been scared to ask them or scared of the reaction of what I would get back.
My theory is that there’s a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.
Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister’s head using alginating plaster.
