“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.” PeopleWarStatesFeltCommunityUnitedUnited StatesLonelyContactIsolatedInteractionUnits Author:Assata Shakur
“I felt I should have been taught about the landmine problem. It made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn, like the history of the people.” PeopleWorldShouldHas BeensMadeProblemCertainFeltRealizingTaughtShould HaveShould Have BeenLandmines Author:Angelina Jolie
“I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.” PeopleIfsThinkingHelpingFeltTeachLosingIf I Could Author:Arnold Palmer
“I felt that there was nothing wrong with what I was doing because I was supplying a product to people that wanted it and it was accepted. I mean nobody really was making any negative statements about marijuana.” PeopleMeanWantedFeltProductsNegativeAcceptedStatementsMarijuana Author:George Jung
“Write what you want to read. So many people think they need to write a particular kind of book, or imitate a successful style, in order to be published. I've known people who felt they had to model their book on existing blockbusters, or write in a genre that's supposed to be "hot right now" in order to get agents and publishers interested. But if you're writing in a genre you don't like, or modeling yourself on a book you don't respect, it'll show through. You're your first, most important reader, so write the book that reader really wants to read.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsWritingFirstsKindImportantBookShowsOrderFeltKnownSuccessfulStyleParticularReaderRight NowModelsHotWhat You WantAgentsSupposed To BeGenrePublishersModelingBlockbuster Author:Cassandra Clare
“You're not allowed to park a truck in your driveway. You're not allowed to work on your house on Sunday. The people who enforce these laws are nuts. After I wrote a column on this, I got I don't know how many letters from Coral Gables homeowners, story after story after story, wonderfully horrible stories. And the venom they felt for their own government!” PeopleKnowsStoriesGovernmentLawHouseFeltKnow HowLettersHorribleParksSundayNutsTruckColumnsVenomDrivewayHomeowners Author:Dave Barry
“I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be freed for all people. A particular religion over others was never interesting to me. I wanted to talk to people about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.” PeopleHumansMeanArtWantedFormFeltChurchInterestingAliveParticularNeededWhat It Means To Be Human Author:Rob Bell
“I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating.” PeopleStoriesFeltPressuredDealing With PeopleAggravating Author:Tucker Max
“I never felt like I was stealing anyone's fans as much as I was introducing some younger people to comedy who will eventually find tons of other comedians that they love.” PeopleFeltComedyFansStealingComedianIntroducing Author:Bo Burnham
“I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.” PeopleWayBookHelpingMightSchoolFeltMy OwnHugeHigh SchoolAweFlattered Author:Sarah Dessen
“Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, `I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to this charity fund, to that trust....` You feel a little happier. The world has lived in poverty, the world has lived in scarcity, ninety-nine percent of people have lived a poor life, almost starving and dying, and only one percent of people have lived with richness, with money - they have always felt guilty. To help them, the religions developed the idea of charity. It is to rid them of their guilt.” PeopleWorldGivingFeelsLittlesIdeasHelpingFeltPoorPovertyDyingCollegePercentGuiltCharityNineGuiltyFundHospitalsNinetyStarvingRichnessScarcityNinety NinePoor Life Author:Rajneesh
“I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself.” PeopleLyingDiesFeltTeachingWillingBiggerWitnessEmpoweringTelling The TruthExposingBearing WitnessSomething Bigger Than Yourself Author:Cornel West
“I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.” PeopleFactsWould BeFatherFeltParentDifficultCircumstancesMetsInspiredAnxiousBeing A FatherGood ParentDifficult Circumstances Author:Andrew Solomon
“The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.” PeopleKindHelpingWinningFeltSuccessfulPlayerTeamFieldsEmpathyStandingRealizationBeing SuccessfulLiberatingStanding Down Author:Oliver Kahn
“Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.” PeopleBookFeltAttentionShapesDrawsConnected Author:Jonathan Lethem
“I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated.” PeopleFeelsKindWholeAgeFeltSidesMy OwnGenerationsStreetsResponsibleComplicatedConnectedShockVietnamBeing ThereMy GenerationPilgrimageEmpatheticComplicated RelationshipHanoi Author:Anne Waldman
“I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.” PeopleAmericaRememberFeltCitiesIndiaSouthCaughtMexicoEarthquakesSouth AmericaLineageMexico City Author:Anne Waldman
“In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the lives of the people have a kind of prior desperation and a prior need and my longing is for the story and their lives to somehow come together, even if not finally or forever, to face something; and it felt like a lot of the time with the essays I was wading into situations where there was an assumption of finality of understanding, and I felt like I could wade into any understood moment and tear it apart and make it fall apart.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsKindI CanMomentsStoriesTogetherFacesFallFeltUnderstandingSituationForeverTearsUnderstoodLongingAssumptionShort StoryContrastDesperationEssaysFalling ApartWadeFinality Author:Charles D'Ambrosio
“I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayShouldWritingLooksPersonsAbleFeltStepsCreativeProduceDespairShadowAverageCoffeeMiserableTouchedMelancholyGood WorkCreative PeopleAverage PersonDelving Author:David Starkey
“When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are sharing in something that hundreds of millions of people have read with love, and I think that this is worth holding onto. It is not a matter of canonical texts or elitism, which the universities are trying to make us wary about. It is about shared language and metaphor and experience and imagery and that is all good.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingMatterReadingLanguageFeltMillionsUniversityMetaphorImageryHolding OnElitismOdyssey Author:Robert Dessaix
“Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love it or hate it or enjoy it on their own, like how I've looked at abstract paintings of other artists and cried or felt happy because I've felt, "Wow, I've lived that, I've understood that."” PeopleThinkingFeelsSometimesArtistHateFeltEnjoyPaintingUnderstoodAbstractWowCriedAbstract Painting Author:Jose Parla
“When you have a young kid you can't go out much at night, so I spent a lot of time at home, watching movies and cooking dinner with my wife. It felt like what most people experience. White picket fence stuff.So there was some enjoyment of that normalcy, but I have to admit that part of me missed the chaos of touring. I think it's about balance.” PeopleThinkingHomeKidsYoungNightFeltStuffWhiteWifeBalanceCookingChaosDinnerMy WifeEnjoymentFenceTouringNormalcyPicket FencesCooking Dinner Author:Dan Mangan
“I felt a great sense of indebtedness and responsibility to use the help that other people had given me to in turn help others and to use the opportunities that I had had in my life to really turn that around and to make an impact and to carry forth some of the issues that I believe are important to the future of our society.” PeopleBelieveImportantHelpingUseTurnsOpportunityGivenI BelieveFeltResponsibilityIssuesImpactHelping OthersOur SocietyIndebtedness Author:Brooke Ellison
“Sometimes you have to go outside your boundaries. You have to jump over that fence, but I always felt very comfortable (in my jobs) because I worked with some good people.” PeopleSometimesJobsFeltComfortableBoundariesGood PeopleFence Author:Bob Hartley
“I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference.” PeopleKnowsShouldValuesFeltDifferencesTalentFortunateGood People Author:Bob Hartley
“Sometimes I'm just a little bit too honest. There was some things that were going on behind the scenes that I didn't like because it's not what hip-hop is about. Hip-hop is about honesty and it's about being real to the people, and I kinda felt like there's some instances where some artists aren't 100% honest with the people. Their integrity is lacking sometimes. And sometimes it comes out.” PeopleLittlesRealSometimesArtistFeltBitsBehindsHonestHonestyIntegritySceneLittle BitHip HopInstanceHipsHopsBeing RealLackingBehind The Scenes Author:Wale
“I've felt love from certain songs that I've wanted to experience from other people - where I know that love may never happen - and I want to give that to someone else.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingMayHappensWantedCertainSongFelt Author:Wesley Eisold
“I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity.” PeopleMindPersonsRealSongFeltEasyIntegrityPopsReal PersonPop Song Author:Robyn
“When I first came up, the whole AIDS epidemic was starting, and the gay community that I experienced from the beginning of my career was mostly - and overwhelmingly - concerned with staying alive. And, also, I felt really aware of the preciousness of life and time. The gay community and people who were HIV-positive were treated so badly, and I was very disturbed by things. But I also saw a lot of love and connection in the gay community at that time.” PeopleFirstsWholeFeltCommunityCareersSawsAliveGayConcernedConnectionsStartingAidsTreatedStayingDisturbedHivEpidemicsStaying AliveLife And TimeGay CommunityHiv PositiveAids Epidemic Author:Madonna Ciccone
“There was no way I was going back to school to study anything for another three or four years. I was done with that. So I tried working on other people's projects, but didn't find any where I felt I could learn what I needed to learn.” PeopleWayYearsDoneSchoolThreeFeltStudyFourNeededProjectsFour YearsGoing Back To School Author:Chika Anadu
“There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.” PeopleFeltHollywoodOriginality Author:Colin Farrell
“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
“The highest thing people can say about an artist is, 'You know, I felt he or she was singing right to me.' If you've got the goods, and you're honest, that's where the thrill comes in, because of the urgency of the people really feeling what they feel. It's right there.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsFeelingsArtistFeltHonestHighestSingingGoodsThrillUrgency Author:Steve Ross
“When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.” PeopleFirstsKidsAgeWantedFeltUnderstoodFirst TimeLos AngelesFreakWacky Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt
“I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.” PeopleWayLifeNeedsMadeStillsFeltInterestingClassSubjectsPaintingDrawingBest WayGet BackVery Interesting Author:Peter Wright
“'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.” PeopleFeelsTryingPersonsRealMomentsFeltComedySeriousDramaPerformancesMy FavoriteRealisticReal PersonFunny People Author:Jonah Hill
“I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.” PeopleThinkingImportantSocialFeltHeroEmptyImportant ThingsProtestContemptImpatientJimmy Book:The Outsider Source: The Outsider
“People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.” PeopleKnowsWayNeedsWellsEnoughFacesFeltStepsMachinesSmileSakeHillsUncomfortableExposedArena Author:Lauryn Hill
“I've always felt bad that I never had more information to give people when they asked me about it, but I guess people kind of got frustrated by that and they just started kind of making up their own sort of "well, we haven't heard that much" or "news hasn't changed so it must be going away".” PeopleGivingWellsKindFeltHeardHavensInformationChangedNewsGoing AwayFrustratedMaking Up Author:Jason Bateman
“Most of the movies that I've made that I really felt good about and cared about made very little money anyway, so I'm not particularly worried about people downloading and sharing them.” PeopleLittlesMadeFeltWorriedLittle Money Author:Edward Norton
“I really just enjoy listening to talk [to John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling]... not even about acting or anything. It's interesting because I felt really connected to all these people very easily. They're all very open emotionally, like we're in the scene together, so you never feel like anyone's acting.” PeopleFeelsTogetherFeltEnjoyHurtInterestingActingListeningSceneConnectedCharlotte Author:Kirsten Dunst
“I loved working with him [Justin Chadwick]. He was very smart in how he assembled the people around him and had a crew that he knew very well. He was very comfortable on the set and I never felt that I was working with a first-time filmmaker.” PeopleFirstsWellsFeltComfortableSmartFirst TimeFilmmakerCrewJustinVery Smart Author:Eric Bana
“Well, it's basically the viewers who determine it. We - well, basically the producers and myself chose the people we felt had the best reaction, you know, through the press, the Internet, the people we thought deserved a second chance. And they've chosen a winner, I believe.” PeopleKnowsBelieveWellsI BelieveFeltChanceInternetPressesDetermineReactionsChosenProducersWinnerViewersSecond Chance Author:Simon Cowell
“I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.” PeopleTwoEyeFeltSceneTwo ThingsGore Author:Eli Roth
“When people call me a sex icon, it's flattering but it never goes to my head because I never felt sexy as a teenager.” PeopleSexFeltSexyTeenagerCall MeIconsFlattering Author:Eva Longoria
“Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.” PeopleFilmFeltSmarterBacklashQuentinTarantino Author:Eli Roth
“There are people who just collect a bunch of footage and then edit it later. You definitely feel more protected when a director is moving on when you've actually felt something happen and you know they're watching intently.” PeopleKnowsFeelsHappensMovingFeltDirectorsThings HappenBunchProtectedEdits Author:Matt Damon
“I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely.” PeopleThinkingPersonsFeltViewsWho You AreSexualityDefinedSmall Parts Author:William Friedkin
“I like collaborating, but I felt I should do my first single by myself so people don't think I'm leaning on other artists to be a success.” PeopleThinkingShouldFirstsArtistFeltCollaborating Author:Missy Elliot
“On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.” PeopleWantFirstsIdeasFeltSidesHellWeekProveEqualProjectsAdmireNervesFlipProve MyselfNew Projects Author:Dave Franco