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• I felt, as a lawyer, when I was mentoring and working with kids, that I gained a level of groundedness that I just couldn't get sitting on the forty-seventh floor of a fancy firm. Selfishly, it gives me joy - it makes me feel like my life has a purpose.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Giving, Joy

  "Michelle Obama: Your First Lady (Special Recognition)". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 2, 2009.

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• I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.

  Will Sheff

  Real, Writing, Artist

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I guess I don't think about age too much. I've always felt older than I really am anyway. I'm not dreading getting older. I don't miss the anxiety of being younger and not knowing what you want or where you’re going.

  Steve Buscemi

  Thinking, Anxiety, Missing

  "10 Minutes with Steve Buscemi". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2007.

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• America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these people will be told in the history books. So I always felt I had to find out my history for myself and research my roots.

  Nas

  Book, Roots, America

  Source: www.hypemagazine.co.za

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• I was born in an odd spot and was a very sensitive kid. My feelings could get hurt so easily because I always wanted to be loved, I wanted to be touched, I wanted to touch somebody. I wanted everybody to love me, so I think I was louder than I should have been. I was just trying to get attention. I always felt like I was somebody special, maybe it's because I needed to be somebody special.

  Dolly Parton

  Hurt, Kids, Thinking

  "New Again: Dolly Parton". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I always felt that if you're not trying something different each time out of the gate, you're being safe, and you don't ever want to find that place of safety. I like that, each time, before I even go in front of the cameras, the studio's reaction will be fear.

  Johnny Depp

  Safety, Trying, Cameras

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2014.

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• I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself and to see that in the midst of all my ambition and desire to succeed and my search for approval, I do give things to people. I bring some sort of happiness to their lives. So I'm not so hard on myself anymore.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Ambition, People, Giving

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• Fashion is about having a point of view, a taste and a personality. For us we always felt we could apply our DNA really to anything but you have to do it if it's true to you, feels authentic. It has to be real.

  Karen Walker

  Fashion, Real, Dna

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• My experience in the United States was living in a society that was very much at war with itself, that was very alienated. People felt not part of a community, but like isolated units that were afraid of interaction, of contact, that were lonely.

  Assata Shakur

  Lonely, War, People

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• There's something about approaching 50 that's very liberating. Political struggle has always been a 24-hour-a-day job for me. I felt I could never take time out for myself. Now I feel I owe it to myself to develop in ways I've been putting off all my life.

  Assata Shakur

  Jobs, Struggle, Political

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• I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I've never had that experience. If I'm not happy with the balance, I just won't work with that person again.

  Jack Nicholson

  Balance, Actors, Not Happy

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• I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

  Jack Nicholson

  Writing, Different, Vantage Point

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• I have felt over the years a definite progression or arc from feeling guilty about what I had done with the first one [film], because certainly there was all that fundamentalist guilt that came pouring back in.

  Wes Craven

  Years, Feelings, Guilt

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I've always relied on discipline to achieve goals great and small. At a young age, my father instilled a real work ethic in me - and a fear of men. I always felt like if I didn't have a natural knack for something, I could kind of out-discipline the competition as it were. So I would always work as hard as I possibly could, sometimes to my own detriment and my personal life. For me, I think will power and discipline are very synonymous.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Father, Real, Men

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I have always felt like romantic comedies are incredibly predictable. You look at the poster and you know those two are ending up together at the end of the movie.

  Jason Segel

  Two, Together, Looks

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• My heart and passion has always been to reform the criminal justice system. I want to be a public servant, and I wanted to be a prosecutor because I felt it was the best way forward.

  Marilyn Mosby

  Passion, Heart, Way Forward

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'm hugely inspired by the '60s and the '70s. I just love the music of that time and the overall freedom of that era. I love that the idea of clashing didn't really exist. You could mix prints on prints, you could mix fabrics and colors - and it was more about the way you felt than about the label and trends. That's something that I've always gravitated towards.

  Nicole Richie

  Color, Ideas, Labels

  Source: community.qvc.com

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• Whether it be current or past, every single song that I recorded is about me. It's a peek into my life, past and present. Maybe it's coming from my theater and performance background, but nothing felt right unless I could relate to it.

  Lea Michele

  Song, Past, Theater

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• I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among many non-fiction writers that the narrative is terribly important.

  Robert Caro

  Book, Understanding, Important

  "The Round Table: Fiction, Biography And The Use Of Power". Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, www.robertcaro.com. 1999.

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• Hitchhiking, intrinsically, is sexual and dangerous. At the same time I never really felt scared. I was scared that nobody would pick me up and that I'd be waiting by the side of the road for a week.

  John Waters

  Waiting, Pick Me Up, Sides

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• I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.

  Harry Shearer

  Men, Guy, Humanity

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it's important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field.

  Nicolas Cage

  Jobs, Block, Judging

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• I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall.

  RuPaul

  Wall, Space, Aliens

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• The State of New York City says in defense you can use as much force as you feel like the person that is coming for you with. So if I'm wrong than the law is wrong. That's really the way I felt.

  Curtis Jackson

  New York, Law, Cities

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• What surprised me about directing is how much I loved it and how happy I am to be on the set. I love coming to work in the morning. What I realized is that I never loved acting. I don't love being in the hair and makeup chair. I don't [love] being in costume. To me the strangest thing is that I've just spent the majority of my life in one aspect of this business, and because I was fortunate enough to become successful I never questioned whether I felt at home and found out later in life that I'm much happier directing.

  Angelina Jolie

  Morning, Home, Successful

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