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• [The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful.

  Amber Heard

  Diaries, Roles, Process

  "Amber Heard the Rum Diary Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.

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• We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Heart, Thinking, Broken

  "Marjane Satrapi: Superman is Boring, Batman is Hot, Dictators Are Clueless". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. August 13, 2012.

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• The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all kinds of foot diseases. They die. They get cysts. Not only is it painful, it eventually kills them.

  Lily Tomlin

  Zoos, Elephants, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.

  John Lurie

  Loss, Stuff, Reason

  "Q&A: John Lurie and The Invention of Animals". Interview with Joe Keohane, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2014.

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• I think in general I personally have a tendency to protect other people's feelings, and I've noticed that becomes a major hindrance to communication. It's better to just be honest, even if it's painful.

  Joe Swanberg

  Communication, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There can be a blurry line between laughing at the expense of a character and laughing at the recognition of something painful and true. But blurry as it may be, it is nevertheless unmistakable, and sometimes the laughter I hear makes me wince.

  Todd Solondz

  Laughter, Character, Laughing

  "Q&A: Todd Solondz talks inspiration for new movie 'Dark Horse'". Interview with Daily Bruin, dailybruin.com. July 29, 2012.

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• Change is always proceeded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's always tough for me.

  Mel Gibson

  Pain, Thinking, People

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• A good actor is like a racehorse or a Ferrari. If a cylinder is missing on a Chevy, it's doesn't matter that much. But if something's not working right on a Ferrari, it makes a big difference. It's the three percent that makes the difference between good and great. It's a fine line. If you're not there, it's very painful.

  Christopher Walken

  Differences, Missing, Ferrari

  Source: www.donshewey.com

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• Handling a painful situation in a comedic way is truly the funniest. That is extremely real to me and not kind of clownish. There is a thin line though; you can't overdo it.

  Will Ferrell

  Real, Lines, Way

  "Will Ferrell: 'I Am Kind Of Boring To Me'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. August 3, 2011.

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• I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Effort, Agonizing

  "Morgan Freeman: 'Strive for Pleasure and Peace'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 28, 2012.

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• There are some people who want me and my husband to stay where it is safe and draw a paycheck every week instead of what we are doing (which is creating and sharing our art with others). The truth is that there are people in this world - Dave and I being two - who would die a slow painful death if stuck in an office and made to do the kind of work that we are not made to do.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Art, Husband, Creating

  Source: sara-mincy.blogspot.com

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• I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

  Marc Jacobs

  May, Invisible

  "Marc Jacobs' new Daisy Dream is here". Interview with Ingeborg Van Lotringen, www.cosmopolitan.co.uk. July 1, 2014.

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• Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. ... In this way the soul can become like soft clay in the hands of the Master.

  James E. Faust

  Adversity, Hands, Soul

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• The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pilgrimage, Climbs

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1995). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.44, Hackett Publishing

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• In a mad moment, my family and I purchased a home in Maine because it's the place in the world that my wife loves better than any other place or any other human, and so I have committed my life and what had once been my economic security that has now returned to insecurity, to a patch of painful, rocky land on the shores of horrible, cold waters to a place where people go in the summer to experience autumn because leaves start falling on August 1.

  John Hodgman

  Summer, Fall, Home

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I do not want to see it on electronic. I do not want to see all of those indices on Kindle. I don't want this physical object to disappear, because when it's there and it's present, it's continually suggesting new relationships in a way that an electronic index couldn't.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, New Relationship, Want

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• One of the problems in the United States is the refusal on the part of our young people to remember or to want to remember, or to recognize the experiences of the past as being relevant, germane, important to the present and to the future. They simply don't want anything that's painful. They want to live in a painless society where everything is pleasant, and everything is joyful.

  John Hope Franklin

  Past, People, Important

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• Most people believe that aging is painful and we know that pain is from diseases that are preventable, not from aging.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Believe, People

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Loss, Fabric, Kind

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

  Maya Angelou

  Aspect

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside the White House, as you learned, sometimes with painful experience, have competing agendas, have differing points of view, have priorities they're trying to protect.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Views, Painful Experiences, White

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Russia, Democracy, Relapse

  "'They Were Truly Idiots'". Interview with Matthias Schepp and Christian Neef, www.spiegel.de. August 16, 2011.

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• All the authors who've ultimately published Louder Than Words memoirs have been very happy to be chosen and excited about the possibility of having their memoir published. Even though these books deal with serious, often painful, issues, in all cases the authors felt as though writing their story would be an empowering and healing experience.

  Deborah Reber

  Book, Healing, Writing

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• What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should give us pause. People willing to eat flies and worms for a sum that is less than the weekly paycheck of the show's producer. I haven't seen "reality television" that is other than this kind of painful, sadistic exploitation of fit young people looking for agents.

  Lorrie Moore

  Reality, People, Giving

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

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• A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.

  Mario Bunge

  Religious, Ideas, After Death

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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