“At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.” DifferentGirlFeltBandHanging AroundIndigo Author:Amy Ray
“When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.” ThinkingDifferentEnergyFeltBornDestinyGrowing UpGrowingMinutesSupposed To BeDestinationTexasIntangibleIntangible Quality Author:Jamie Foxx
“I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference; don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.” DifferentKidsFeltDifferencesPersonalityYeahWho You AreCelebrateSense Of HumorKink Author:Michael Weatherly
“I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.” FeelsWritingPersonsDifferentUsedFeltDisciplineInspiredMoodMature Author:Donald Miller
“We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.” KindDifferentFeltWaterStyleFishesOddDifferent KindsLife StyleClose FamilyOdd One Author:Janet McTeer
“Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.” GivingTryingYearsI CanDifferentFeltEnjoyFourAdviceEventsYears AgoImportanceAtmosphereFour YearsOlympicsTeammate Author:Kohei Uchimura
“I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.” LittlesTwoDifferentMightMovingScienceSocialFeltCommonRaceMoralGroupsSocietyOceanIntellectualScientistSouthClimateCommunicateIncomePsychologicalEarningIdenticalChelsea Author:C.P. Snow
“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.” DifferentReasonFeltSpecialLondonParisSomething Special Author:Charlotte Rampling
“I felt strange in my own family, because I had a very liberal mind, and I would ask myself, "Why is there this discrimination between men and women?" In our culture, the man should be outside and the woman should be at home. I wanted to study, or meet my friends, and I couldn't. And I felt very different.” MenShouldMindDifferentHomeWantedCultureAsksFeltMy OwnStudyStrangeHe ManMen And WomenMy FriendsDiscrimination Author:Malina Suliman
“I didn't want to do a costume drama. It's a great thing to do, but I've done them, and I didn't want to do the same thing again. Of course, costume dramas can be from all different eras, but at the time, I just felt very sure that I didn't want to be boxed in as an English actress. I wanted to be an actress, rather than an English actress.” WantDifferentDoneWantedCoursesFeltDramaActressesGreat ThingsErasThings To DoCostumesDifferent Eras Author:Carey Mulligan
“I remember when A love Supreme was released - I heard it at a friends house. ... Man it was incredible. That record sounded different than the rest. I was trying to gather my spirituality together, trying to get an understanding of life ..... I felt Coltrane was the first musician who made a transition from one side to the other.” MenTryingFirstsMadeDifferentTogetherRememberSpiritualityHouseFeltUnderstandingSidesRecordsHeardMusicianIncrediblesSupremeTransitionRemember WhenColtrane Author:Maurice White
“The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer.” WayWritingDifferentFeltDifferent Ways Author:Nigella Lawson
“There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The elements of the spirit behave the same way. Happiness can reach a pitch so great that any further happiness can't be felt. Pain, despair, humiliation, disgust, and fear are no different. Once the vessel is full, the world can't add to it.” WorldWayDifferentPainSpiritFeltWaterMaterialsBearsLimitsDespairElementsStressAddBehaveMetalsDisgustingInherentHumiliationVesselMeltingBoilingBoiling Point Book:The Post-office Girl Source: The Post-office Girl
“I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentFeelingsFeltDifferent TimesMannerisms Author:Radha Mitchell
“I come from a small county outside of Washington DC called PG County, and me, my mom, my brother, we moved so many different places growing up. And it felt like a box. It felt like there was no getting out.” DifferentFeltGrowing UpGrowingBrotherMomMovedBoxesMy MomMy BrotherNbaCountyDifferent PlaceMvp Author:Kevin Durant
“A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.” PeopleDifferentHelpingFeltGayCome UpSexualityWho I AmBeing GaySaying Thank YouThank You For Helping MeThank You For Helping Author:Boy George
“I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.” WayLooksI CanDifferentEyeWantedFeltTalkingDisappearMy WayPacksDifferent TimesPublic Eye Author:Amy Grant
“Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.” MaySaidDifferentFeltFriendshipPrinciplesFansObjectsSeriousWindFriendsDegreesInspiredAffectionVainFlamesSincereReverseSublimeBosomsSuccessionLove And Friendship Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.” WayFeelsPersonsDifferentAgeFeltChildhoodVividWrinkles Author:Sarah Orne Jewett
“The reason I started writing was because I was a little kid in San Diego who was getting beaten up by her dad and sexually abused and because I felt different than everybody else and I had this big huge secret that was tearing me apart.” WritingLittlesDifferentReasonBigsKidsFeltSecretHugeDadBeatenLittle KidSexuallySan Diego Author:Dorianne Laux
“When I was ten years old, my dad and brother did JUDO so I went along because I felt like I was missing out. They eventually gave up and I continued, then moved into Tae Kwon Do, kickboxing and various other martial arts. I did lots of different things, but mostly things like Wushu, Jeet Kune Do, Krav Maga and stuff like that.” YearsArtDifferentFeltStuffMissingBrotherDadTenMovedMy DadVariousDifferent ThingsMartial ArtsGave UpJudoMissing OutKickboxing Author:Scott Adkins
“I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.” PeopleFeelsKindI CanDifferentCountryFeltPatrioticHomesick Author:Andy Serkis
“Android is a new form of the other, but you can parallel the other to so many different types of people. Even if you don't consider yourself to be the other, at one point in time I'm sure you felt like that.” PeopleIfsDifferentFormFeltTypeParallelsAndroids Author:Janelle Monae
“Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in.” KnowsYearsStillsDifferentHomeFeltSituationDrugConversationComfortableAddictionCommunicateShyInabilityGangShynessDrug AddictionDrug AddictInvertedInability To Communicate Author:Elton John
“What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.” TwoDifferentFeltFeministMotherhood Author:Rachel Cusk
“Every guy is different, but just prepare to know him in a different way and be OK with it, because the times I've lived with girls, and I've lived with some very sweet girls, I felt bad that they had to live with me.” KnowsWayDifferentGuyGirlFeltSweetDifferent WaysVery SweetSweet Girl Author:Chris D'Elia
“We[with Jordan Peele] wanted to do something with [Barack] Obama because we actually felt that Obama was kind of responsible for us even getting a show in the first place because there's this biracial person who might, you know, have to ride the divide between two different races.” KnowsFirstsKindPersonsTwoDifferentShowsMightWantedFeltRaceResponsibleBarackDividesJordanBiracialDifferent Races Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and it was only when I became an adult that I began to really appreciate from a completely different angle the power of science.” DifferentYoungFeltStudentsAdultsAppreciateScientistAngleDifferent AnglesGood ScienceYoung Life Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since shifted to the East. With the former Warsaw Pact countries joining NATO, the alliance has a different mix today. Some people were sensitive about my comment because they thought it was a pejorative way of highlighting demographic realities. Apparently they felt it pointed a white light at a weakness in Europe - an aging population. Europe has come some distance since World War II in becoming Europe.” PeopleWorldWayLongMadeDifferentWarCountryRealityLightTodayFeltWhiteBecomingWeaknessEuropeDistanceAgingPopulationEastFormerSensitiveWar Of The WorldsCommentWorld War IiGravityWorld War IAlliancesJoiningNatoDemographicsPactWhite LightHighlightingWarsawCenter Of GravityAging PopulationWarsaw Pact Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty, they will need things like the drugs they choose to use. Mankind has wanted to change the way it felt from the beginning anyway. In this country there are even more reasons to want to feel different, to want to feel better, because this is such a neon sewer. This is such a degrading culture. It forces you to play Beethoven to your child in the uterus so that he will get into a better school and a better job and make more money so he can take care of you.” ThinkingWayWantNeedsFeelsChildrenLongDifferentCountryReasonPlayUseProblemCareWantedSchoolJobsCultureForceFeltMankindDrugEmptyOur ChildrenTake CareYour ChildrenMore MoneyFeel BetterSymptomsBetter JobsDegradingNeonSewersUterus Author:George Carlin
“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.” PeopleBookDifferentStoriesAmericaFeltGroupsResearchRootsPotMeltingHistory BooksMelting Pot Author:Nas
“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.” IfsWantTryingDifferentFeltFrontsSafeCamerasSafetyStudiosReactionsGatesTrying Something Author:Johnny Depp
“I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.” WritingDifferentFeltFilmmakingVantage Point Author:Jack Nicholson
“I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.” YearsLongDifferentWould BeTogetherFeltLosesChanceFiveExampleResponsePursueComicEnjoyedFive YearsRejectedUnemployedGood ChanceHobbesComic StripsLong Road Author:Bill Watterson
“In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way.” WayWantDifferentDoneFeltTermDifferent Ways Author:Joan Didion
“I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well.” WorldWayWellsDifferentCountryFeltDealsTreatsAffectedDifferent Countries Author:PJ Harvey
“Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.” FirstsDifferentFeltCitiesNew YorkProudProductionsNew York CityBroadwayProud Of MyselfPlateaus Author:Chris Carmack
“Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.” DifferentMovingFeltClassCollegeGrewGrew UpEssenceTownsMovedMilesPostsSouthernWorking ClassBeltsDifferent PlaceRustBaltimore Author:David Simon
“I certainly felt I had an idea of World War II, and it's probably the idea that many people share: there was this insane aggressor, and there was really only one way to proceed in resisting him. What I didn't realize is that there were many voices belonging to reasonable, interesting, complicated people who had a different way of interpreting the possible responses to the Hitlerian menace.” PeopleWorldWayIdeasDifferentWarFeltVoiceRealizingInterestingShareResponseComplicatedInsaneOne WayDifferent WaysWar Of The WorldsReasonableBelongingWorld War IiWorld War IResistingMenaceInterpretingAggressors Author:Nicholson Baker
“With Eclipse, I felt like I was doing a completely different movie and a completely different character. So, yeah, it was nice and challenging.” DifferentCharacterFeltChallengesNiceYeahEclipseDifferent Characters Author:Robert Pattinson
“I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.” WritingDifferentMatterSocialFeltIssuesPiecesFindingsPagesPoetry IsSongwritingSocial IssuesStrengtheningWriting Poetry Author:PJ Harvey
“I wanted to make a film about anorexia. I thought about it for a long time, but then gave up on this idea as I felt that this theme would be so hermetic and closed that it would not reach an audience. However, the plot about the character of Olga and the idea that a body has a lot of different meanings were still present in my mind.” MindLongStillsIdeasDifferentCharacterBodyWould BeWantedFilmFeltAudienceLong TimeThemePlotGave UpAnorexiaDifferent Meanings Author:Malgorzata Szumowska
“Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers.” KindDifferentDoneFunFeltInterestingStrangePerspectiveSceneRedIntentionWitnessBeachSpeakersStairsTheatricalCannes Author:Willem Dafoe
“I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house.” WayDifferentBigsWantedHouseFeltSeeingReaderDifferent WaysHaunted Houses Author:Benjamin Percy
“When I was in acting class, we did a lot of really serious scenes, and we didn't do comedic scenes. I felt like doing those scenes, it didn't come out of my mouth the right way. I don't know if it's because my voice is different, or what it is about me, but it just seemed a little off.” IfsKnowsWayLittlesDifferentFeltVoiceActingClassSeriousSceneMouthsRight WayComedicActing Classes Author:Leslie Mann
“As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about...” IfsFeelsPersonsDifferentEyeAbleFeltCausesFortuneShedGood FortuneSpotlightPublic Eye Author:Scarlett Johansson
“I've always felt a little different than everyone - you know, most of the other kids in my class - and I didn't quite see things the way they did or I didn't experience things the same way they did. I often felt a little bit like an outcast.” KnowsWayLittlesDifferentKidsFeltBitsClassLittle BitOutcast Author:Erin Davie
“Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.” TryingDifferentKidsSchoolFeltGrowing UpGrowingEqualApproachMulticultural Author:Priscilla Ahn
“I couldn't help but feel very different from everybody, so I think that's why I found such a big world in music, and that's why I kind of - I was an introvert as a kid, but I loved the piano, and that's where I felt at home.” ThinkingWorldFeelsKindDifferentHelpingHomeBigsKidsFoundFeltPianoIntrovert Author:Emeli Sande
“After I saw my first poem published, I became interested in the immortalization of words and the fact that you could put something out there that you felt and that meant something to you, and that it could be interpreted by many different people to mean many different things.” PeopleFirstsMeanDifferentFactsFeltSawsDifferent ThingsDifferent Peoples Author:Amber Tamblyn