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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

- Norman Mailer

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

- Lasse Hallström

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

- Michael Lewis

On producing The Bucket List (2007): This is kind of a little minefield here. You want to get the tone right for it. This is a subject that you have to deal with comically. It`s still got to be funny. You want sentiment, not sentimentality. These are all the sidewalls you want to not fracture the picture on. Not that I don`t like an easy job.

- Rob Reiner

I always say that I don`t want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn`t be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

- Robert Frank

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

- Alicia Dlugosh

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

- Amanda Milburn

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

- Amanda Milburn

Instead of a clear call for repentance we have been offered warms words of sentimentality for those who have shown no godly sorrow for their actions.

- Amy Drake

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

- Carl Gustav Jung

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

- William Somerset Maugham