Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
What comes from the heart goes to the heart
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.
If you're striving for strong emotion and strong sentiment, and you're authentic with it and honest with it, then you're on the right side of the line. But if you step into sentimentality, there is a false move or a false tone to it.
A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
I don't listen to the national anthem ironically. It's a beautiful song. I love it!
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.
... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.
I think it's important to say that I am genuinely thankful for the time at Bellator.
There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.
I really wanted to write a song like Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight.' It's just such a sweet sentiment. It's so simple but so genuine.
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.
So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
I know I'm supposed to say this, but I really, genuinely think Matt Damon is a great dude.
I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.
The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.
I'm romantic to some degree, if I really like somebody. I'm more romantic if there's someone that I like than I am a romantic just for romantics sake.
The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.
Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be the most egregious of all creative sins. I think it's a problem if you consider it the thing to be avoided at all cost. I think it's a problem of you're not willing to risk the consequences of that kind of emotionalism under any circumstances. Then you wind up in the cul-de-sac of irony.
