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“I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.”

People Girl Felt Singers Pretty Girl

Author:Adam Levine

“I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.”

People Feels Writing Hate Felt Loses Compassion Loneliness Sorrow Forgiving

Author:Louise Penny

“I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.”

People Ifs Love Kind Two Feelings Felt Sleep Wonderful Terrible Waste Betrayal Obsession Relieved Affinity

Author:Leonard Cohen

“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

“Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.”

People Ifs Knows Years Children Whole Film Actors Felt Adults Whole Life Manage Transition Film Set Child Actors

Author:Anna Popplewell

“People come up to me at conventions and say, 'I was such an outcast, I felt like such a geek, and when I saw you, you made me feel like such a normal person.' It's my favorite thing to hear, because that's how I felt when I was a kid. If Goth would've been around, I would've definitely been Goth. But there wasn't such a thing, so I was just weird.”

People Ifs Feels Persons Made Kids Felt Saws Normal My Favorite Come Up Conventions Geek Favorites Things Outcast Goth

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.”

People Hands Felt My Own Visiting

Author:Kamla Persad-Bissessar

“I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.”

People Want Strong Felt Attitude Environment Grew Grew Up Rough Your Presence

Author:Mekhi Phifer

“Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.”

People Men Universe Felt Like You Mets Center Of The Universe

Author:Wendell Pierce

“I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.”

People Want Mind Facts Felt Cities Thousand Stuck Los Angeles

Author:Edward Ruscha

“I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.”

People Way Feels Jobs Felt Audience Saws Directors Tough Surprise Fighter Princess Amy Tough Women

Author:David O. Russell

“In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.”

People Felt Company Boring Bored Dull Awkward Gloomy Unwelcome

Book:The Immoralist

Source: The Immoralist

“I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.”

People Important Felt Issues Judging Linux

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30,000 and 50,000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.”

People Kids School Felt Mass Loser September Tequila Cool Kid

Author:Tila Tequila

“Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.”

People Thinking Hard Felt Rooms Fiction Conflict Confusion Journalism Contradiction Internals Capture Ambivalence Internal Conflict

Author:Amy Waldman

“My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously.”

People Littles Play Character Wanted Mother Father Felt Roles Taken Genius Computer Smart Mark Glasses Who I Am Far Away Smart People Very Smart Wheelchairs

Author:Michael Weatherly

“I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.”

People Writing Seems Young Felt Stuff Smart Pulling Curtains Exposing Frail

Author:Mike White