Felt Quotes - Page 26

• I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I felt a tremendous urge to re-create a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Eye, World, Habit

  Maurice de Vlaminck (1967). “Dangerous corner”

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• I was fascinated by the [operation] of a U-boat ... where every single man was an indispensable part of the whole. Every submariner, I am sure, has experienced in his heart [the joy of] the task entrusted to him [and] felt as rich as a king.

  Karl Donitz

  Kings, Heart, Men

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• The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

  George Orwell

  Enemy, Untruth

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell: Animal farm”

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• Being this side of 40 feels like what I should have felt being this side of 25: in my body, in my heart, happy with my life, and OK with whatever bumps in the road present themselves.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Heart, Should Have, Bumps

  "Glamour Interview: Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore and Alicia Keys Talk!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.glamour.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.

  Goldie Hawn

  Letting Go, Hurt, Love Is

  Goldie Hawn (2005). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, Putnam Adult

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• Confidence is a big part of any sport, but as far as sports psycholgy, I met with one last year before the season, and hell I just felt stupid after that, so I try to stay out of there.

  Clint Bowyer

  Sports, Stupid, Years

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• The first day of training in Big Bear, it felt like somebody put a plastic bag over my head. After eight weeks up there, I feel very strong.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Strong, Eight, Training

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• I have a mouse, but don't have a mouse driver for MINIX and have never felt the need to write one. Typing "rm x y z" is a lot faster than clicking five times and then having to convince the system that you really, truly, mean it and this is not a mistake and that you are consenting adult over 18 and that you completely understand the consequences and you still want to do it.

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  Mistake, Writing, Mean

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• I'm completely surrounded, not only my father, but also my three brothers, and Sergio, my husband, all four of them work in film. Some are writers, or directors, or cinematographers, all of them. I'm surrounded by men that make films, so much that at some point I felt there was no more room in the family for another filmmaker.For many years I was only working as novelist or writing screenplays for others to direct.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Brother, Husband, Father

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The part that I felt most comfortable with going in was just working with actors and trying to make them feel comfortable and safe so they could find the performance. That part felt organic to me.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Trying, Actors, Safe

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I felt like the universe was tapping me on the shoulder saying, "You're the guy who has to tell this story because nobody else is."

  Joe Berlinger

  Guy, Stories, Shoulders

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I couldn't help but feel very different from everybody, so I think that's why I found such a big world in music, and that's why I kind of - I was an introvert as a kid, but I loved the piano, and that's where I felt at home.

  Emeli Sande

  Home, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.

  Amanda Ripley

  Worst Moments, People, Focus

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.

  Eve Ensler

  Doctors, Complaining, Would Be

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• I've always felt at home in the Church. Catholics are often more laid back than they are given credit for - presumably because at the back of their minds they realize that, if necessary, they can always confess everything to their local priest.

  Jens Spahn

  Home, Catholic, Mind

  "Out on the Right: On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". Interview with Markus Feldenkirchen and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 23, 2012.

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• The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  People, Movement, Revolution

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• I'm friends with [David] Fincher. [James] Cameron gives me advice. I know a fair amount of directors who have been through it, and they all felt pretty confident that I would be fine when I got my shot. So their confidence made me feel confident.

  Timothy Miller

  Giving, Advice, Directors

  "Exclusive: Tim Miller Talks Deadpool Development & X-Men Universe". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. November 5, 2015.

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• Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity.

  Ben Lerner

  Moving, Writing, Irony

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Although telenovelas have been part of my world since childhood, I always felt like I had to be something that I wasn't. I had to put on so much makeup and wear a push-up bra and have huge hair with blond highlights. I was falling into a mentality where "more" was more beautiful.

  Genesis Rodriguez

  Beautiful, Fall, Makeup

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• After I saw my first poem published, I became interested in the immortalization of words and the fact that you could put something out there that you felt and that meant something to you, and that it could be interpreted by many different people to mean many different things.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Mean, People, Different

  "Amber Tamblyn: 'I get rejected for a living'". Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.salon.com. August 30, 2015.

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• I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.

  R.A. Dickey

  Thinking, Motivated, Guts

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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• I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art context and I started to do installations, that was when writing of mine almost returned to fiction. Earlier I felt like I didn't have anything to write about, I could only concentrate on the page, I could only concentrate on words.

  Vito Acconci

  Art, Writing, Plot

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 2007.

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• As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Kids, Home

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• I quickly realized that I enjoyed editing more than writing. I felt more suited to it and it fit my nurturing personality. I had lots of ideas and a strong sense of structure, and I enjoyed working with talented writers, relishing the give-and-take in making their work better.

  Lynn Povich

  Strong, Writing, Editing

  Lynn Povich (2012). “The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace”, p.179, PublicAffairs

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