Sentimentality Quotes – City of Quotes

The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, ‘How did you know so much about me?’ And of course, the answer is very simple: ‘I just observed myself without sentimentality.’

Alain de Botton

The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, ‘How did you know so much about me?’ And of course, the answer is very simple: ‘I just observed myself without sentimentality.’

Alain de Botton

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Sentimentality is a false sense of self.

Pete Hamill

Sentimentality is a false sense of self.

Pete Hamill

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From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

August Wilson

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

August Wilson

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One of the things that happens when you write characters – and maybe this is my own sentimentality – is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.

Greta Gerwig

One of the things that happens when you write characters – and maybe this is my own sentimentality – is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.

Greta Gerwig

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It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

James Baldwin

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

James Baldwin

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India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

Simon Beaufoy

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

Simon Beaufoy

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Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.

Howard Jacobson

Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.

Howard Jacobson

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There’s a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there’s a sentimentality.

Mandy Moore

There’s a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there’s a sentimentality.

Mandy Moore

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I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

Lasse Hallstrom

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

Lasse Hallstrom

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I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine – you mourn things that actually happened.

Pete Hamill

I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine – you mourn things that actually happened.

Pete Hamill

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I like emotions, but I really don’t like sentimentality, and I don’t like when things break their spell.

Tony Gilroy

I like emotions, but I really don’t like sentimentality, and I don’t like when things break their spell.

Tony Gilroy

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Sentimentality – that’s what we call the sentiment we don’t share.

Graham Greene

Sentimentality – that’s what we call the sentiment we don’t share.

Graham Greene

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I didn’t want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn’t want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

Lionel Blue

I didn’t want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn’t want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

Lionel Blue

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Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Doris Lessing

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Doris Lessing

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Love scenes are extremely difficult. You’re always within a millimeter of sentimentality and ‘yuck.’

Hugh Grant

Love scenes are extremely difficult. You’re always within a millimeter of sentimentality and ‘yuck.’

Hugh Grant

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#sentimentality 15

The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, ‘How did you know so much about me?’ And of course, the answer is very simple: ‘I just observed myself without sentimentality.’

Sentimentality is a false sense of self.

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

One of the things that happens when you write characters – and maybe this is my own sentimentality – is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.

There’s a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there’s a sentimentality.

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine – you mourn things that actually happened.

I like emotions, but I really don’t like sentimentality, and I don’t like when things break their spell.

Sentimentality – that’s what we call the sentiment we don’t share.

I didn’t want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn’t want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Love scenes are extremely difficult. You’re always within a millimeter of sentimentality and ‘yuck.’