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• Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Suffering, World, Reason Why

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• Earl Scruggs had this thing that it wasn't just the technique or even the instrument. It was him. There was this soulful quality that came through that made you - if you're somebody like me who was, I guess, supposed to play the banjo, it made you stop in your tracks, and you couldn't do anything until you got done hearing him play, and then immediately you'd have to go try and find a banjo.

  Earl Scruggs

  Play, Track, Trying

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• If you can’t laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. I’d rather hear a girl laugh well than try to turn me on with long, silent, soulful, secret looks. If you can laugh with a woman, everything else falls into place.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Girl, Fall, Long

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• The way that house music has become so white and so sanitized over the decades and the fact it's still going on, well I think it's sad really, but at the time I really loved it. I loved all the black house music that was coming out of Chicago and New Jersey, which I just thought was really soulful.

  Paul Weller

  Thinking, White, House

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.

  Davy Rothbart

  Zines, People, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had never been to Hawaii, and now I say that my body is from L.A. but my heart is from Hawaii, because I'm in love with it and it's home on every level, from a spiritual, soulful place.

  Shailene Woodley

  Spiritual, Home, Heart

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• I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.

  Donna Karan

  Play, Differences, Making A Difference

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.

  Wendell Pierce

  Cat, New Orleans, Play

  "Wendell Pierce: Everyone's Favorite Fake Trombone Player". Interview with Patrick Jarenwattananon, www.npr.org. July 4, 2011.

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• The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.

  M.I.A.

  Wall, Artist, Robots

  Source: thequietus.com

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• And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Jazz, Offers, Knows

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• While everyone has a different experience of what is soulful, these experiences do share similar beginnings. We start by giving ourselves permission to be soulful, to take seriously this aspect of ourselves, our soul and our soul needs.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Different Experiences, Giving, Soul

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• Finding out that Ray Charles sang country songs but it sounded as soulful as any rhythm and blues record that kind of opened up my horizons for what songwriting was and what singers I could listen to.

  Michael Kiwanuka

  Country, Song, Kind

  "Michael Kiwanuka: For Those Who Think Young". Interview With Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 28, 2012.

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• As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Book, Past, Thinking

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• Don't let your cool stand in the way of being soulful. Life is too short. Too short to hate. Too short to judge. Too short not to live for. Don't let anything or anyone get the best of you or your heart and mind. If you are going down... go down swinging, singing, and loving.

  Butch Walker

  Hate, Life Is Too Short, Heart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel for his characters and their twisted, damaged lives; he makes you *want* to feel.

  Paul G. Tremblay

  Character, Sound, Doe

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• More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.

  Tom Robbins

  Soul, Waxing, Mystery

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• It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

  Rachel Weisz

  Loss, Political, Stories

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• She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.

  Nick Hornby

  Mean, Thinking, Pissed Off

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• Lili manages to mix Kate Bush with modern influences to make a beautifully unique sound based around her amazing violin skills and soulful voice.

  Steve Lillywhite

  Unique, Skills, Voice

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• We need to make sure that the powers that be know that arts education is as vital and as important as geography and arithmetic. You know, it is a part of the spiritual and the soulful experience and expression of being human and it is a necessity, as necessary as water, as breathing air.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Spiritual, Art, Air

  "Art (Education) Talk with Rosie O'Donnell" by Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. June 30, 2014.

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• I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it’s been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Country, School, Rocks

  Interview with Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I think I'm a soulful singer.

  Katey Sagal

  Thinking, Singers

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• Breathes life into a vital but oft-neglected chapter of our history. Amy Belding Brown has turned an authentic drama of Indian captivity into a compelling, emotionally gripping tale that is at once wrenching and soulful.

  Eliot Pattison

  Drama, Captivity, Amy

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• I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.

  Lucinda Williams

  Taken, Guitar, Voice

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• I loved doing Cee Lo’s Bright Lights in the Big City. That was definitely a favorite of mine, because I love to get all soulful. And a close second would be Flo Rida’s Right Round, because I could rap, which I’ve never really done before.

  Skylar Astin

  Rap, Light, Cities

  "“Pitch Perfect” Interviews: Anna Camp & Skylar Astin Reminisce About Vomit, Exhausting Production, And Bursting Out In Song". Interview with Michael Lee, www.movieviral.com. October 3, 2012.

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