Felt Quotes - Page 27

• To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Grievance, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I asked the head musician if I could go onstage during the next break and he said sure. I got two laughs in twenty minutes, and walked out feeling more elated than I had ever felt in my entire life. The glory of that triumph contented me for two full years.

  Emo Philips

  Years, Two, Laughing

  Source: www.sheckymagazine.com

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• My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.

  Lauryn Hill

  Beautiful, Past, Order

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• Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Writing, Successful

  Source: cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com

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• I never liked living in Montreal. And I don't really like the music scene there. It was never my cup of tea, and I never felt like I ever fit in.

  Mac DeMarco

  Tea, Cups, Fit

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• I felt comfortable in the water. I was in my own world, focused. I love sports and I'm a very goal-oriented person. Once I started falling in love with sports, it was easy. I was able to put my mind on something and go for it. That's how I am with everything, it doesn't matter what it is that I do. If I want to do something, nothing will stand in my way.

  Michael Phelps

  Sports, Falling In Love, Water

  Source: www.parenting.com

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• I always had an affinity for lizards. I've always felt somewhat close to them. They're reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times.

  Johnny Depp

  Feelings, Reptiles, Lizards

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• When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my classroom. And with my own students, I refused to let them use the phrase "I like" or "I don't like" when we were engaged in a critique.

  Tim Gunn

  Teaching, Responsibility, Vocabulary

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• I never felt like I was stealing anyone's fans as much as I was introducing some younger people to comedy who will eventually find tons of other comedians that they love.

  Bo Burnham

  People, Comedian, Fans

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• Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

  Al Pacino

  Issues, Problem, Sensitive

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Playing drums or music, being a musician, is inside of you. So you would always see me tapping on something, playing on tables... I never felt the need to pull out drums.

  Eric Hernandez

  Needs, Tables, Musician

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• But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge - and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever - maybe such a life wouldn't be so bad.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Summer, Sports, Responsibility

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• I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, School, People

  Source: blogs.idahostatesman.com

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• I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Drinking, Smoking, Students

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Horror Stories, Guy

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself.

  Cornel West

  Lying, Teaching, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way.

  Joan Didion

  Different, Done, Want

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• I was so horny in school it felt like my body was filled with electricity. I felt like I had neon bones or something.

  Patti Smith

  School, Horny, Body

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Ancestry, Gender

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.

  Andrew Solomon

  Father, People, Parent

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• I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.

  Andrew Solomon

  Jobs, Children, Ideas

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• One time I went to a hotel. I asked the bellhop to handle my bag. He felt up my wife!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Wife

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• All the authors who've ultimately published Louder Than Words memoirs have been very happy to be chosen and excited about the possibility of having their memoir published. Even though these books deal with serious, often painful, issues, in all cases the authors felt as though writing their story would be an empowering and healing experience.

  Deborah Reber

  Book, Healing, Writing

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• If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.

  Agnes Varda

  Thinking, Enemy, Way

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They never told me to be quiet, turn the music down or anything like that. So I felt pretty free and experimental as a kid to kind of figure out my own voice.

  Tori Kelly

  Kids, Voice, House

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