I Quotes
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“I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.”
Source: Motherhood and Hollywood: How To Get a Job Like Mine
“I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.”
“I felt trapped and hopeless. I didn’t know how to alleviate the distress from the memories. I was lost in how to treat myself.”
“I felt truly ashamed when I spat blood onto the street and caught her frightened gaze. I felt sorry for her; she seemed too delicate, as if she'd never seen someone in pain before. She looked like a butterfly; hazel eyes, hair neatly braided, a broad white forehead with a few strands of brown hair falling across it. Her beauty was simple; the kind one passes every day without a second glance. So why was I drawn to her, of all the faces around me, faces filled with judgment as I collapsed on the street?
From Whispers along the Strings of Love”
Source: Whispers along the Strings of Love: A Novel
“I felt ugly, chubby, and stupid until I talked to my mom about it and she had me do a very good exercise that I recommend to every girl. She had me take a piece of paper and write down everything I liked and everything that I didn't like about my body and my life. By the end of the exercise, I realized that I had so many more things in my likes column. It showed me that while there are a few things in my dislikes column, I was giving ALL my attention to those few things!”
“I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.”
“I felt uneasy about making the rapid decisions I have always made, and wondered whether every decision should be formally ratified and minuted at a board meeting.”
Source: Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way
“I felt unready to hold myself responsible for the decision if I slept with him”
Source: Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
“I felt unworthy to play Jesus. I just accepted the responsibility and said, 'What actor wouldn't want to play this role?'”
“I felt vaguely outraged that such a bad person had such a good car. Because the car was the culmination of a thousand-odd years of scientific advancement. But the guy was a dick. I wondered when that had happened; that we had started making better machines than people.”
“I felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.”
“I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.”
“I felt very bad and could not sleep until 1am. Maybe he could coach me defence.”
“I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.”
Source: The Big Sea: An Autobiography
“I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.”
“I felt very close to him, and really wished to be able to love and honor him as a witness, an ally, and a father. I felt that I knew something of his pain and fury, and, yes even his beauty. Yet precisely because of the reality and the nature of those streets - because of what he conceived as his responsibility and what I took to be mine - we would always be strangers, and possibly one day, enemies.”
Source: The Fire Next Time
“I felt very comfortable about myself when I was much heavier. I feel much better about myself from being fit.”
“I felt very comfortable on a set - incredibly comfortable on a set, which is a real gift because that can be hugely intimidating.”
“I felt very grown up when I was wearing makeup, thank you very much.”
“I felt very happy. To think that I didn't have to torture myself sitting in a smoke-filled room with a painted party smile, watching my date get drunk”
Source: Letters Home
“I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.”
“I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have the personal agency to express it, i kind of imagined that maybe at some point (I'd have to) own it publicly and discuss this kind of complexity.”
“I felt very lonely when they were all there.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true, and I couldn't hide the truth much longer. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race.”
Source: the bell jar
“I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of race.”
Source: the bell jar
“I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn't become any more until I saw the baby... But it happened during my labor because I had a very strong connection with my child. I felt like when I was having contractions, I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door. And I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn't think about my own pain... We were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication.”
“I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.”
“I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.”
“I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
Source: the bell jar
“I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing.”
“I felt vindicated that I decided to speak up for not only myself but women all across the nation who've been put down.”
“I felt violated after certain scenes in the movie [Stone]. She [Lucetta] is a tough character. The choices she makes, especially her sexual choices... it was hard for me to put myself out there like that.”
“I felt violated, yet I had no voice, no ability to express that. I was conditioned to believe any boundary I wanted was a betrayal of her, so I stayed silent. Cooperative.”
“I felt we needed someone to lead this country who believed heart and soul in leaving the European Union.”
“I felt weak the second she was gone. I felt dead the moment she was no longer mine.
~Cane”
Source: Buttons & Blame
“I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.”
Source: The Days I Knew
“I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.”
Source: The Summer Game
“I felt what I was trying to do was make people realize that comics could be deep. I stopped myself in the middle of saying that because the Bazooka Joe thing I do with Dante's Inferno, that was just a goof. I wasn't trying to make people look at Bazooka Joe more seriously. But in my mind it's always been important.”
“I felt what we always feel when someone dies–the sad awareness, now futile, of how little it would have cost us to have been more loving. One forgets that one is a dead man conversing with dead men.”
Source: The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
“I felt when I was elected that the most important task on this island [Ireland] was to extend the hand of friendship right across the board to the people of Northern Ireland, to have the beginnings of a real peace process. In consequence, although I have no role in intergovernmental talks or political discussions, that would be my very top priority.”
“I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.”
Source: Cat's Eye
“I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”
Source: the bell jar
“I felt worse now, for having known love and losing it, than I ever did in those hours of lonely despair.”
Source: Mister Creecher
“I felt you before I knew of your existence, maybe it was a hint from the universe to continue on the yellow brick road, so when I would find you along my travels I would simply just know.”
“I felt you in my legs
Before I even met you”
“I felt your hunger, Casteel, and I don't need to do this. I stopped doing things I didn't want to do the moment I took off the damn veil. I want to help you. Because as stupid as this may make me, and only the gods know why, I care about you! So, yeah. I don't want to have my throat ripped open, and I also don't want to know that you're suffering for no reason.”
Source: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
“I felt, "Oh, film is a great art because I can pull in music and visual imagery, and it has its literary aspects and drama." Film was a sort of Wagnerian synthesis of the arts, as opposed to opera, which Wagner had thought would be. That's another art form that has seen its best days.”
“I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.”
Source: Love Undetectable: Notes on Friendship, Sex, and Survival
“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.”
“I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior I'd come to see as my co-conspirator.”
Source: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again