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“When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.”

Trying Action Wanted Pain Felt Acting Study Plans New York Hero Needed Action Heroes

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.”

Children Felt Interesting Acting Trouble Needed Focused Compare Stay Focused

Author:Diane Lane

“I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.”

People Want Years Whole Wanted Felt Chance Four Missing College Needed Balance Involved Scared Whole Life Pushing Four Years Hoping For The Best Time Passes

Author:Guy Oseary

“When Ben Stiller and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'”

Way Firsts Littles Long Said Stills Kids Felt Bits Needed Prove Letting Go Married Little Bit Long Way Just Let Go

Author:Christine Taylor

“I felt there needed to be a show for teenagers that didn't make them feel judged. 'Skins' never tried to preach. It allowed young people to make their own decisions about what to do and whether it was right or wrong. Young people really respond to that, and that's what sets 'Skins' apart.”

People Feels Shows Young Felt Decision Needed Skins Teenager Judged

Author:Kaya Scodelario

“I always felt I needed to teach to survive.”

Felt Teach Needed

Author:Leonard Baskin

“Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics.”

Ifs Want Kind Wanted School Law Felt Practice Policy Needed Resumes Public Policy Law School Yale

Author:Robert Reich

“Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.”

People Felt Religious Needed Busy Guidance Too Busy

Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future : a Nonfiction Collection

Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future : a Nonfiction Collection

“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.”

People Way Humans Hands Faces Law Force Felt Interest Sin Judging Broken Needed Protect Projects Creating Committed Harm Overwhelming Wrongdoing Overwhelming Force

Author:Deepak Chopra

“What I didn't understand was that the personal and the political go together. I felt at the time I had to sacrifice my children's present for their future. It seemed an either/or. I didn't realise that by being with one's own children I would have had a better understanding of the ones who are not my own. I was thinking of them but I didn't spend the time that they needed from me. It's a tribute to them that they came out so well.”

Thinking Wells Children Together Political Felt Understanding My Own Sacrifice Needed My Children Realising Tribute Either Or

Author:Vanessa Redgrave

“If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!”

“And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.”

Knows Looks Felt Term Happened Needed Murder Expected Throwing Charging Gauntlet

Author:Patty Hearst

“I didn't go through anyone's garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me.”

People Knows Felt Needed Garbage

Author:D. T. Max

“It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It just started to come out. I really feel like it came straight from my body. I think it was both an expression of what I had gone through, but also it just felt like everything had come together in my body and it needed to tell that story.”

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Author:Eve Ensler

“Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didnt read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.”

World Humans Film Artist Felt Acting Son Months Needed Scripts Quitting Anarchy

Author:Charlie Hunnam

“I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed in drug-related gang violence. I have been to the prisons. I have seen the effects. At some point in time, I felt I had to do something other than write a novel about it, that I needed to try to make some sort of contribution, at least try to make some sort of difference in the real world.”

World Writing Trying Has Beens Real Kids Mother Lost Felt Differences Novel Violence Effects Son Needed Drug Prison Sat Related Contribution Real World Gang Gang Violence

Author:Don Winslow

“The day Caleb touched my hand and I saw all those things, I was excited. Yes, a little freaked but excited more. I felt like...everything I ever needed was right there. I still feel like that. It's not something you can just turn off and I wouldn't want to. I want him more than I need him.”

Want Needs Feels Littles Stills Hands Turns Felt Saws Needed Excited Touched Want Him Turn Off Caleb I Need Him

Author:Shelly Crane

“I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.”

Wanted Felt Needed My Future

Author:Susanna Kaysen

“I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.”

Thinking Knows Children Helping Felt Needed Tough Help Me

Author:Troy Polamalu

“It may seem like I came out of the blue. But, my road was long, windy, full of hurdles, and even some dead ends. I lost family. I lost friends. I even lost my way. When I reached what felt like rock bottom, I realized I had a responsibility to everyone who believed in me and to kids, like me, who just needed a chance and something to believe in.”

Way Believe May Long Ends Seems Kids Lost Felt Chance Responsibility Rocks Needed Blue Bottom I Realized Like Me My Way Hurdle Dead Ends Windy Lost Friend

Author:Victor Cruz

“The judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it”

Ifs Song Felt Pieces Judging Needed

Author:Blake Lewis

“I was born in an odd spot and was a very sensitive kid. My feelings could get hurt so easily because I always wanted to be loved, I wanted to be touched, I wanted to touch somebody. I wanted everybody to love me, so I think I was louder than I should have been. I was just trying to get attention. I always felt like I was somebody special, maybe it's because I needed to be somebody special.”

Thinking Should Trying Has Beens Feelings Kids Wanted Felt Born Hurt Attention Special Needed Should Have Spots Odd Sensitive Touched Should Have Been Wanted To Be Loved Somebody Special

Author:Dolly Parton

“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.”

People Humans Mean Art Wanted Form Felt Church Interesting Alive Particular Needed What It Means To Be Human

Author:Rob Bell

“The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out.”

Thinking Way Made Sometimes Reason Life Is Felt Materials Needed Work Out Right Thing Vary Doing The Right Thing

Author:Al Pacino

“I can remember the time I would get my scripts and spent the entire weekend breaking them down and playing with them, and putting a lot of work into them, trying to bring the character to life, and to make interesting choices. It was one of the things to me that told me that I needed to change things up a little bit, because to me, I felt the passion was lacking from some of my performances.”

Trying Littles I Can Character Remember Choices Passion Felt Bits Interesting Needed Little Bit Performances Down And Scripts Weekend Lacking

Author:James Scott

“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.”

People Way Years Done School Three Felt Study Four Needed Projects Four Years Going Back To School

Author:Chika Anadu

“I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally. Then I'll take a teeny movie when I need to work on myself and become a better actor.”

Ifs Needs Done Helping Bigs Actors Felt Comedy Regret Needed Projects Scared Help Me

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the dealers would have liked that.”

Felt Needed Dealer

Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi

“Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work....When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.”

Giving Felt Talent Creation Divine Praying Needed Sitting Give Me Praise Certainty Piano Each Day Grants Praying To God Sitting Down Give Me Strength

Author:Joseph Haydn

“I believe in grace because I've seen it and peace because I've felt it and forgiveness because I've needed it.”

Believe I Believe Felt Grace Needed I Believe In

Author:George W. Bush

“Miscarrying is a horrible painful event. That just felt like something that needed to be addressed. I am by no means prescribing how people grieve. I am just saying it's painful, it's not your fault and it's so common. Well if it's so common - let's talk about it and open a dialogue where people know what to say to you.”

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Author:Laura Benanti

“We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie was created in the 70s. There are great advances but with those come a great many complications.We felt that the character needed to grow up in that kind of environment and had to face those kinds of colossal choices that were not going to be easy. It's difficult to figure out the right path. And even if you do good there are causalities to your choices. We thought it would be compelling.”

“I felt my personal life was not what it should be. It had nothing to do with Mr. Show - I'm monstrously appreciative and understand what it did for me and to me - but after four years, I just felt like I needed to do something else. I guess I wanted to be in a different place, physically.”

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Author:Bob Odenkirk

“Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.”

Political Felt Needed Program Plato Reconstruction

Author:Karl Popper

“I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.”

Said Christian Felt Poverty Issues Environment Perspective Needed Republican Disease Hunger Addresses Touched Homelessness Hunger Poverty

Author:Mike Huckabee

“My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pulling triple duty, doing more than I ever felt like she needed to. I made a promise to myself that it would be more of a team effort in my family someday. And because of that, I became more independent.”

Made Would Be Care Jobs Felt Effort Saws Team Duty Mom Needed Dad Promise My Family Independent My Mom Someday Pulling Team Effort

Author:Carrie Underwood

“There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says "love is so short, forgetting is so long." It's a line I've related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we're trying to move on, the moments we always go back to aren't the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren't really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning.”

“First of all, I had the desire for that format [silent movie], and then when I was talking to people, I felt that people needed justification. Why are you doing a silent movie? Is it just for your own pleasure? I felt it was not enough for them so I realized I have to choose the subject that will make things easier for them and to tell the story of a silent actor makes sense for doing a silent movie.”

People Firsts Enough Stories Desire Actors Felt Pleasure Talking Subjects Needed Easier Silent I Realized Make Sense Justification Format Silent Movies

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“When I came to Chelsea from West Ham there were certain parts of my game I felt I needed to improve and I like to think now that I have shown dramatic improvement.”

Thinking Certain Games Felt Needed England West Improvement Dramatic Ham Chelsea West Ham

Author:Frank Lampard

“I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil.”

Evil Felt Needed Weapons

Author:Gordon Parks

“I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs... I would insert my own text or my own specific reading of the image to give the viewer something they might not interpret or surmise, due to their educated way of looking at images, and reading them for their emotional, psychological, and/or sociological values. So I would start to interject these things that the photograph would not speak of and that I felt needed to be revealed, but that couldn't be revealed from just looking at an image.”

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Author:Lorna Simpson

“I left for the same reasons everyone leaves jobs that are no longer fulfilling their hopes and aspirations. I didn't see myself spending the rest of my life being a strummer for someone else's dreams. Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bullshit and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.”

Reason Dream Jobs Opportunity Left Felt Decision Millions Creative Regret Needed Fame Opposites Mirrors Spending Aspiration Bullshit Fulfilling

Author:Mark Knopfler

“Someone asked me if I was a method actor - I loved that! I needed to know what it felt like to lose everything just to do the Bad Day video! I could really feel the angst!”

Ifs Knows Feels Actors Felt Loses Needed Method Video Bad Day Angst

Author:Daniel Powter

“And as a first time director I needed to work with someone that I felt comfortable with, and that I could get along with. It was a perfect match [with Sam Rockwell]; I am so thrilled I got to work with him. He is a really nice and incredible guy.”

Firsts Guy Felt Perfect Nice Needed Directors Comfortable First Time Incredibles Really Nice Perfect Match

Author:Duncan Jones

“The music I was writing for 'Hamlet' needed to be very simple because there was so much going on with the dialogue in that play, so I felt like the music had to complement that - so that carried on through; I was working on the soundtrack and the album simultaneously.”

Writing Play Felt Simple Needed Albums Dialogue Soundtracks Complement

Author:Sarah Blasko

“I left Stone Sour in '97 because, by that time, we'd been together for about five years and I was kind of getting to the point where I wanted to do something different. I loved the music that we did and I loved the guys that I was with, but I was 24 and just felt like I needed to go and try something different so I didn't get stuck where I was, you know, just doing the same thing. And, coincidentally, that's when Slipknot came and asked me to join. I'd never done anything like Slipknot up until then, so I was like, "Okay, we'll try this and we'll see what happens." And it worked out.”

Knows Trying Years Kind Different Done Happens Wanted Together Guy Left Felt Five Needed Stones Okay Stuck Five Years Sour Stone Sour

Author:Corey Taylor

“When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.”

Looks Felt Chance Needed Prove Opposites Pressure Take A Chance Chances In Life

Author:Shane Filan

“I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn't understand [myself], I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh.”

People Character Stories Felt Laughing Alive Cry Needed Angry I Realized Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Making People Happy

Author:Dakota Johnson

“I`m a sexual assault survivor. I have long felt like Bill Cosby needed to be held accountable. But I keep wondering if this is a system that can bring that accountability.”

Ifs Long Felt Wonder Needed Bills Accountability Survivor Assault Sexual Assault

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“It's getting to the point where, to be honest with you, even though there is a lot of great music around, especially in clubland, certainly from my corner of something I just felt like I needed to get my hands dirty and DJ out.”

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Author:Erol Alkan

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