“As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.” IfsCharacterOpportunityFeltCareersColorTypeCreating Author:Lance Reddick
“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'” IfsKnowsWantFeelsWritingI CanStoriesHouseFeltPayWalkingCreatingOkayDown AndDesertLeapChimneysLeap Of Faith Author:Stephen King
“In the face of nature's overwhelming forces, humans needed a God who would protect them from harm. When they felt that they had broken the law or committed wrongdoing, people turned to a God who would judge them on the one hand and redeem their sins on the other. In this way, purely from slef-interest, the project of creating God in our own image proceeded--and continues to proceed.” PeopleWayHumansHandsFacesLawForceFeltInterestSinJudgingBrokenNeededProtectProjectsCreatingCommittedHarmOverwhelmingWrongdoingOverwhelming Force Author:Deepak Chopra
“I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.” WayFeelsWritingYearsWellsLightReadingFeltHavensExampleListeningCreatingCrowdsEnvyAdmireGuiltyExcitementAdorationRelishMercuryReading And WritingManicSuicide NoteCreating Music Author:Freddie Mercury
“I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.” IfsFeltFearChanceEnemyGrowingRiskOffersCreatingMy FriendsSomething NewCreating Something Author:Eartha Kitt
“How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.” KnowsWritingLittlesFeltDarkWhiteConsciousnessKnownSeaCreatingFearlessBeachSandHopefulInsecureLaunchingWhite Sand Book:Notebooks, 1960-1977 Source: Notebooks, 1960-1977
“I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.” WorldFeltBitsFantasyCreatingGenreSci FiGeekCreating Worlds Author:Samantha Shannon
“You're creating music to pull people into a world, whether it be a visual medium where music is just one element, or a purely musical medium. Either way, you're trying to transport people and to create a connection. I've always felt that the best films and the best albums can be the best company. If people feel a little bit less alone because of something I had a hand in creating than I feel like I'm contributing to the world in a positive way.” PeopleIfsWorldWayFeelsTryingLittlesHandsFilmFeltBitsCompanyElementsCreatingLittle BitMusic IsConnectionsMusicalAlbumsMediumsVisualsJust OneBeing The BestTransportContributingBest FilmCreating MusicBest Company Author:Andrew Hollander
“This perfume was not like any perfume known before. It was not a scent that made things smell better... it was completely new, capable of creating a whole world, a magical, rich world, and in an instant you forgot all the loathsomeness around you and felt so rich, so at ease, so free, so fine.” WorldMadeWholeFeltKnownRichFineCreatingCapableSmellWhole WorldEaseInstantScentPerfume Author:Patrick Süskind
“First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.” FirstsKindBookFormFeltChallengesResponsibilityParticularPeriodsCreatingMy FamilyArtisticSlumsCreating Something Author:Frank McCourt
“I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words. That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don't think it could happen with a long book.” ThinkingWayWritingLongStillsBookDreamInspirationHappensFeltStrangeCreatingHearingLong Book Author:Alan Lightman
“I probably sensed the serious formality of the ceremonies and felt what others were feeling then. Looking back, I'd guess that it had opened up a gaping hole in my psyche. In the process of creating art, I might be trying to fill that hole, or to reduce its depth, or to make it feel less hollow. I think that making art could have helped from that moment on.” ThinkingFeelsTryingArtMomentsFeelingsMightFeltProcessSeriousCreatingDepthHolesThat MomentLooking BackCeremonyHollowFormalityCreating Art Author:Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
“For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing. How the comedy ever even started in my life was that moments got uncomfortable and I felt uncertain of what the outcome was going to be, so I found a way to deflect what I was feeling, or what everyone else was feeling, by creating laughter.” WayMomentsFeelingsFoundFeltComedyDramaCreatingLaughterUncomfortableOutcomesThat MomentUncertain Author:Romany Malco
“I wore combat boots for two albums, then I went into more of the sparkle and glamour. The older that I've become, I've felt very connected to fashion, especially this past year working with [stylist] Kate Young and creating these relationships with people that I never had before.” PeopleYearsTwoPastYoungFeltFashionCreatingAlbumsConnectedCombatBootsGlamourKateSparkleStylistCombat Boots Author:Selena Gomez
“Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song.” WritingSongFeltProcessCreatingMusic IsChaosReleaseTherapyRoutineDislikeWriting ProcessGood PlaceCreating Music Author:Mpho Koaho
“I think that the thing is, all those years of creating music or trying to express something of a dark shadow, an existential angst that I have felt most of my life and still feel today, to not be overwhelmed by it. Music, in a way, is a great vehicle, a means by which one can express all these somewhat contradictory feelings.” ThinkingWayFeelsTryingYearsMeanStillsFeelingsTodayFeltDarkCreatingShadowVehicleExistentialOverwhelmedContradictoryAngstExistential AngstCreating Music Author:Annie Lennox
“Creating a portrait of a female point of view in an environment that we've pretty much exclusively understood through a male perspective - "Wall Street," "Wolf of Wall Street," "Arbitrage" - etc. was beyond exciting for me. It felt downright necessary. And I felt really inspired by Alysia Reiner and Sarah Megan Thomas' agenda in telling these types of unique, feminist stories. [Both of them produced and acted in "Equity."]” StoriesFeltViewsEnvironmentStreetsPerspectiveWallTypeCreatingUniqueUnderstoodFemaleExcitingInspiredMalesFeministPoint Of ViewEtcAgendasPortraitsEquityArbitrage Author:Meera Menon
“Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?” KnowsWayHumansMeanDifferentDoneSongFeltCuttingLimitsCreatingInfiniteDifferent WaysPhrases Author:Nina Simone
“When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.” PeopleIfsFirstsSometimesHateFeltProcessRoomsAirColdCreatingHotWaveInvisibleTensionBackwardsConditioningDisturbanceAir Conditioning Book:A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement Source: A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement