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"I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow."
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"You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway."
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"Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise."
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"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell."
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"I was a master at keeping my feelings in."
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"To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself."
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"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."
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"My feelings about myself have been terrible."
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"If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up."
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"I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling."
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"I figured I could do It's A Man's Man's Man's World, because I believe it's the truth."
Truth
"It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation."
People
"I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture."
Music
"I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind."
Company
"I sing the songs that people need to hear."
People
"Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't."
Feelings
"They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something."
Dance
"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."
Music
"I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing."
People
"And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve."
Woman
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