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"I was a master at keeping my feelings in."

"I was a master at keeping my feelings in."

Mark David Chapman, American Criminal

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"I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon."

"I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon."

Corey Haim, Canadian Actor

Feelings, Habit, Thoughts, Learning

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"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."

"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."

Claude Debussy, French Composer

Feelings, Feeling

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"Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had."

"Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had."

Tanya Tucker, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Vocabulary, Words

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"A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones."

"A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones."

William Kent, English Architect

Feelings, Feeling, Garden, World

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"Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did."

"Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did."

Ben E. King, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Kids, Today

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"I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right."

"I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right."

Jacqueline du Pre, English Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Play, Right

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"Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it."

"Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it."

Richard Adams, English Clergyman

Feelings, Feeling, Proof, Winter

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"I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face."

"I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face."

Richard Rogers, British Architect

Feelings, Feeling, Old

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"For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can."

"For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can."

Jay Hernandez, American Actor

Feelings, Feeling, Pressure

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"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."

"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."

Etta James, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Songs

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"I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself."

"I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself."

Michael Schenker, German Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Order, Play

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"I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom."

"I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom."

Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian Scientist

Feelings, Feeling, Freedom, Help, Responsibility

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"For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of."

"For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of."

Catherine the Great, Russian Royalty

Feelings, Feeling

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"I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you."

"I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you."

Greta Scacchi, Italian Actress

Feelings, Conviction, Emotions, Fools

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"Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings."

"Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings."

Paris Hilton, American Celebrity

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"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."

"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."

Elfriede Jelinek, American Playwright

Feelings, Feeling, Future, Influence, Will

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"My feelings about myself have been terrible."

"My feelings about myself have been terrible."

Alvin Ailey, American Dancer

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"When you read a script, you get a feeling from it."

"When you read a script, you get a feeling from it."

Sasha Alexander, American Actress

Feelings, Feeling

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"My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring."

"My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring."

Geoffrey Fisher, British Clergyman

Feelings, Holidays, Sight

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"One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends."

"One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends."

Christopher Knight, American Actor

Feelings, Feeling, Friends, Old, Public

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"Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice."

"Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice."

Michael Jackson, American Musician

Feelings, Heart, English

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"Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel."

"Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel."

Maxwell Maltz, American Scientist

Feelings, Needs, Trouble

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"It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better."

"It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better."

Bryan Ferry, English Musician

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"I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high."

"I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high."

Burt Bacharach, American Composer

Feelings, Feeling

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"It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you."

"It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you."

Jim Dale, British Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Fishing

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"A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy."

"A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy."

Cindy Margolis, American Model

Feelings, Feeling

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"I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing."

"I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing."

Ben Stiller, American Comedian

Feelings, Feeling, Reason

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"I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on."

"I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on."

Brenda Lee, American Musician

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"What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared."

"What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared."

Mariel Hemingway, American Actress

Feelings, Anxiety, Want

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"Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard."

"Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard."

Benjamin Jowett, English Theologian

Feelings, Feeling, Taste

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"I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be "up"."

"I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be "up"."

Gregory Hines, American Actor

Feelings, Feeling, Saying

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"It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted."

"It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted."

Jayne Mansfield, American Actress

Feelings, Feeling, World

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"Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand."

"Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand."

Gary Lucas, American Guitarist

Feelings, Feeling, Guitar

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"Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings."

"Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings."

Walt Disney, American Cartoonist

Feelings, Ideas, Children, Ideals

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"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."

"As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else."

Mel Torme, American Musician

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"In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically."

"In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically."

Michael Schenker, German Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Past, Play

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"There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good."

"There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good."

Shelley Duvall, American Actress

Feelings, Feeling, Nothing

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"First feelings are always the most natural."

"First feelings are always the most natural."

Louis XIV, French Royalty

Feelings, First

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"I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again."

"I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again."

Jon Crosby, American Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Longing, Song

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"Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real."

"Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real."

Ralph Fiennes, British Actor

Feelings, Feeling, Moments

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"I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it."

"I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it."

Don Johnson, American Actor

Feelings, Being

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"There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling."

"There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling."

Peter Banks, British Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Sound, Will

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"It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry."

"It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry."

Robin Trower, English Musician

Feelings, Feeling, Play

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"I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves."

"I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves."

Brad Bird, American Cartoonist

Feelings, Feeling, Space

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"You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play."

"You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play."

Robert Duvall, American Actor

Feelings, Feeling, Play

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"But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man."

"But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man."

Monica Lewinsky, American Celebrity

Feelings, Being, Man, Self

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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."

"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."

Michael Polanyi, Hungarian Scientist

Feelings, Knowledge, Communication

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"I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live."

"I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live."

Judy Collins, American Musician

Feelings, Inspiration, Being, Day

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"The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness."

"The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness."

William J. Slim, British General

Feelings, Feeling, Loneliness

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