Felt Quotes - Page 32

• It doesn't take a lot to get me motivated. I'm a studio rat. When I was in high school and I would walk into a recording studio, it felt like this magical place, this temple, this womb that I could escape into.

  Lenny Kravitz

  School, Rats, Temples

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• At 10 o'clock in the morning I'd go right in the studio. It feels good to be there in the morning before the day starts to mess with you - I don't mean in a negative way, but before I'd speak to a lot of people or get into anything, I'd go in there and just see what I felt. A lot happens in the morning for me in the studio.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Morning, Mean, People

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Even though I never really had to pound the pavement as an actor, I always worked really hard. But, at the same time, I always felt like people thought that I didn't have to struggle even though I was struggling.

  Winona Ryder

  Struggle, People, Actors

  "Winona Ryder" by Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 25, 2009.

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• My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because my family was really there for me. I think I just felt like I really wanted to hold on to who I was as a person, and try to have as much of a normal life as I could.

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Winona Ryder" by Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 25, 2009.

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• It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.

  Zadie Smith

  Approval, Made, Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time. I got into a theatre company and started doing stand-up gigs for cash, so I lived hand-to-mouth, but there was always enough to pay the bills.

  Bill Bailey

  Jobs, College, Thinking

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at concerts and the musicians who played on Sunday evenings on street corners. By the time I grew up in the '80s, all of this was a thing of the past. I lived vicariously through his stories and often wondered what it would have felt like to have been part of his generation.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Sunday, Past, Musical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• By the end of the shoot [of Wrestler], my trainer was pushing me up three flights of stairs to my house and holding my arm like I was an old cripple. I had three MRIs in the first two months of working on the film. I felt like it really was over by the time we started shooting the movie.

  Mickey Rourke

  Two, House, Three

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I waited until I felt creative, I would never have had a career. I long ago learned that a day that starts out badly, when nothing comes out on the page or comes out wrong, can suddenly turn into a good day a few hours later, when suddenly everything starts to click. The brain can be cajoled into being creative.

  Dean Koontz

  Good Day, Long Ago, Careers

  "Interview with the Master of Suspense, Dean Koontz (part 1)". Interview with Trisha Sugarek, www.writeratplay.com. June 28, 2014.

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• I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.

  Don DeLillo

  Dangerous, Subjects

  "Intensity of a Plot". Interview with Mark Binelli, www.guernicamag.com. July 17, 2007.

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• I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the dealers would have liked that.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Needed, Dealer

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• I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words. That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don't think it could happen with a long book.

  Alan Lightman

  Dream, Book, Inspiration

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• While wrestling in college as a junior it came to a point where wrestling just wasn't enough for me anymore. I love wrestling, but I felt like I was missing something, and so the striking part about MMA, the boxing and kickboxing, was what got me really interested in MMA. I saw it on TV and I just knew that I wanted to do it.

  Cain Velasquez

  Wrestling, College, Mma

  Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com.

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• I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.

  Fiona Apple

  Interesting, People, Mind

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.

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• When you go to bed at night, you get seven or eight hours of sleep. I've had enough sleep. I've rested, and it's as simple as that. I want to do it now. I didn't want to three years ago. I was waiting until it felt right. I wanted to get back to falling in love with my guitar again, and hanging out with my guitar like I would a friend.

  Damien Rice

  Falling In Love, Sleep, Simple

  "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.

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• I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a line edit or a copy edit that you felt queasy about and didn't want to take, but took anyway.

  Donna Tartt

  Mistake, Book, Fall

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.

  Judi Dench

  Responsibility, Long, Irises

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I felt quite a responsibility when I played Elizabeth I but nobody here remembers her! And then I felt a responsibility when I played Queen Victoria but not many people remember her.

  Judi Dench

  Queens, Responsibility, People

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My husband wasn't put off by it - he thought it was hilarious to see me dressed as Dylan! He didn't particularly want to kiss me with stubble all over my face - it felt a bit odd! But I think he's used to it [the make-up process].

  Cate Blanchett

  Husband, Kissing, Thinking

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think we all felt it on this movie - crew and cast. You never know when you're making a movie... no one is saying in the middle of Casablanca that this is going to be a classic. The lead actors had turned it down and I think they wound up with B-list actors at the time.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Thinking, Actors, Down And

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Press conference, diymag.com.

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• It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember - I need not recall - that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one.

  Bernard Berenson

  Summer, Morning, Air

  Bernard Berenson (2013). “Sketch For A Self Portrait”, p.14, Read Books Ltd

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• The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.

  Thomas Traherne

  Essence, Soul, Matter

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• What I saw so clearly when I started climbing was adventure. Difficulty was only an ingredient. I never thought to wonder about grades, just as I never thought to wonder what Tarzan might bench press. I found the closer I moved to sport, the closer I felt to science - and the closer I moved to adventure, the closer I felt to greatness.

  Peter Croft

  Sports, Adventure, Greatness

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• On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?

  Farley Mowat

  Choices, Substance, World

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• There is no response to stubbornly by many posed the question of the meaning of expeditions in the high mountains. I've never felt the need for such a definition. I walked to mountains and defeated them. That's all.

  Jerzy Kukuczka

  Mountain, Needs, Definitions

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