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"I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own."
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"Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors."
"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."
"Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed."
"My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later."
"It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!"
"The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs."
"At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road."
"The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing."
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"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."
"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
"I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out."
"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."
"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."
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