Feelings Quotes - Page 39

• I'm certainly not a trained singer. I'm just kind of following a feeling.

  Pokey LaFarge

  Singers, Kind, Following

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's hard for me to climb things. That's why I always play Assassin's Creed because it gets me feeling like I can.

  Ty Simpkins

  Play, Assassins, Creeds

  "JURASSIC WORLD: Ty Simpkins Talks Landing His Role, the Gyrosphere, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 3, 2015.

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• My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.

  Conor Oberst

  Writing, Thinking, Self

  "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 07, 2015.

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• I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Thinking, Ideas

  "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

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• You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Writing, Eye, Ideas

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.

  Eve Ensler

  Passion, Writing, Voice

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.

  Joseph Joubert

  Passion, Hatred, Stronger

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• Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.

  Albert Ellis

  Attitude, Mean, Doe

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• By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.

  Margaret Deland

  Gossip, Gone, Faults

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• No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.

  George Sand

  Losing, Blame, Humans

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• Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Approach, Poetry Is

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser. Chapter One: "The Fear of Poetry", 1949.

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• What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Beautiful, Mean, Humility

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• Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.

  Isabel Allende

  Lonely, Character, People

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• The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

  Joni Mitchell

  Writing, Blood, People

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• Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

  Joni Mitchell

  Love Is, Alive, Plant

  Marom, Malka, Mitchell, Joni (2014). “Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now”, p.139, Music Sales Limited

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• The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Feet, Everyday, World

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1939). “Writing is Work”

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• After love a formal feeling comes.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Formal

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• In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Sports, Games, People

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• My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Regret, Complexes, Remorse

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• Feelings change facts.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Facts, Feelings Change

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• The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Future, Heart, Eye

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• There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.

  William Matthews

  Character, Men, Differences

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• Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.

  Deborah Tannen

  Baseball, Men, Order

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• [On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!

  Harriet Martineau

  Pain, Shadow, Waste

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• While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.

  Harriet Martineau

  Strong, Years, Toil

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.118, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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