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Related For me, it's about being comfortable... but I can feel comfortable in a thong leotard and on sta... JILLIAN HERVEY It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of direc... XAVIER DOLAN To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It's strange, but it's also really... FLUME You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to... CARINE ROITFELD I think it's okay to feel jealous, but it's how you deal with it that's the important th... CARRIE UNDERWOOD I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just v... ERIC CLAPTON I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the ... ERIC AVERY Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know ... JOHN HURT At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as ho... ALBERTO GONZALES I really like Armani Luminous Silk Foundation in the winter because it has SPF, and it's still i... SARAH GADON I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it. SALLY SCHNEIDER I grew up with a lot of brothers, and I don't have any sisters, so for me it's really import... MICKALENE THOMAS It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and ... PATRICK MARBER I know what's it's like to grow up with ADHD and how important it is for parents, caregivers... TY PENNINGTON If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER 'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; i... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that's normal... ANUSHKA SHARMA I'm not a DJ - I don't know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I kn... AMBER ROSE For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and ... BEYONCE KNOWLES There's a fundamental difference between how often men remember to say 'I love you' and ... BRETT YOUNG Well-being is how I feel in my skin, not about how other people are looking at me and what they see.... JOSIE LOREN On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. I... YUVRAJ SINGH I like how my body feels when I'm in shape; I love how it feels after I work out each day. Fitti... COLBIE CAILLAT Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it's one of ... RILEY KEOUGH As I make my way through, I feel okayness reaching through me. The funny thing is that okayness... MARKUS ZUSAK Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It... SHAILENE WOODLEY We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talki... KATHERINE BOO I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scare... CARLI LLOYD I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even ... K'NAAN I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby. ABBEY CLANCY I feel like it's always important to curl your eyelashes. I always do when I wake up and you kno... DOUTZEN KROES You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in -... ERIC CARLE I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interes... ELLEN OCHOA Awareness is the key to everything. I think it's important to be aware of how you feel. How do y... LAUREN BOWLES I think it's really important to always kind of stretch your boundaries and your limits and get ... JOSHUA BELL I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that a... ANNA KENDRICK I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm ... PAUL WELLER Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life. G. GORDON LIDDY I'm quite tactile, so I like fabrics that feel good. I try to avoid fabrics that crease - especi... MIRANDA KERR I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children. KATE SPADE I love how Pilates makes me feel, like it opens me up. I have the hardest time breathing, weirdly en... SELENA GOMEZ I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know. CALVIN JOHNSON I've learned it's really important to work hard and keep your family and friends close. You&... CARRIE UNDERWOOD What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most importa... BRADY ANDERSON I grew up watching 'Dawson's Creek,' and I started watching 'The Vampire Diaries'... PHOEBE TONKIN I love it, but it's not important to me to always be thought of as sexy. I like it when it doesn... EVA MENDES How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r... S. E. HINTON It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in. DASHA ZHUKOVA I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read. VANESSA BROWN You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what'... ERIC CARR It's important to always mix the past with the present. I think that makes it feel more authenti... AERIN LAUDER It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or... CHERYL TIEGS I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and... BEBE REXHA The darker and the sadder the song, the happier it makes me feel. It's just this, ah. I'm in... SARAH MCLACHLAN I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy,... MIKE BIRBIGLIA I think it's important to be with a guy who has a strong sense of integrity. That's how I wa... EMILY VANCAMP You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bon... LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of wha... KAT GRAHAM I think that ultimately your age is determined by your attitude. It's not the number; it's n... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I'm not a protocol fetishist. It's more important to me that people feel at ease when I'... WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to ... PATRICK DEMPSEY Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the re... LIL WAYNE I pray every day. In the mornings and, before I go to bed. I think it's important to pray not ju... JERMAIN DEFOE That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels l... DANA SCHUTZ It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broa... BONNIE BEDELIA I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring... KRISTEN BELL When I travel, I have to have blotting sheets. It's so much better to remove the oil than to cov... BETHANY MOTA Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pr... NATE RUESS It's not just about achieving success; the journey is equally important for me. YAMI GAUTAM I wouldn't give up my career for somebody. The most important thing to me is my work, and reachi... ADELAIDE KANE I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't ... JAKE OWEN The beach is definitely where I feel most at home. It's my oxygen. I forget how much I need it s... BEHATI PRINSLOO Sure, being good at your job is really important, but in acting, so much of the decision's alrea... RASHIDA JONES When I'm not on the road, I try to intake about 300 grams of protein a day, which is a lot. I go... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. What can I say about 'The Lost Boys'? Oh my God: I love it; I hate it; I'm scared of it.... JAIME WINSTONE It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make ch... CAMERON DIAZ I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent ch... SELMA BLAIR I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral ... STEVEN WRIGHT Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real ... ADAM RODRIGUEZ I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madr... MAHESH BABU I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the ... MIRA NAIR When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something ab... JOSH RADNOR It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes ... KYM WHITLEY When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to ... STEVEN WRIGHT I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say... FRED COUPLES I use loads of moisturising products and make sure I cleanse, tone and moisturise every day. It'... ABBEY CLANCY I feel it's important to make a mark somewhere. EVELYN LAUDER It's very important to feel good in my clothes. I like fashion that suits me. I don't take i... CHARLOTTE CASIRAGHI I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition again... ALAN ARKIN I always wear bronzer because I love the way my skin looks when it's tan. LAUREN CONRAD I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's... VINCE CARTER I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the f... VICKY MCCLURE Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? Th... CRAIG ROBINSON I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b... BEN SCHNETZER I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice. PEDRO ALMODOVAR I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really fu... SUMMER SANDERS It's important to focus on how we can strengthen international trade. MAGGIE HASSAN I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at lif... MIKE DITKA
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MARGARET ATWOOD But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No ... MARGARET ATWOOD Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some. MARGARET ATWOOD Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge n... MARGARET ATWOOD There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind. MARGARET ATWOOD Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tootin... MARGARET ATWOOD Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide... MARGARET ATWOOD Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window cloud... MARGARET ATWOOD Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen —is to be...penetrated. W... MARGARET ATWOOD In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as po... MARGARET ATWOOD Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on you... MARGARET ATWOOD Sauve qui peut. To survive we’d all turn thief and rascal, or so says the fox, MARGARET ATWOOD Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. MARGARET ATWOOD But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything? MARGARET ATWOOD Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, scho... MARGARET ATWOOD A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness. MARGARET ATWOOD The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wron... MARGARET ATWOOD She finds this objectivity of hers, this clarity, almost more depressing than she can bear, not beca... MARGARET ATWOOD Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a ... MARGARET ATWOOD Many believed what they were told: that the welfare of the entire kingdom depended on their selfless... MARGARET ATWOOD She did understand, or at least she understood that she was supposed to understand. She understood, ... MARGARET ATWOOD When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be whe... MARGARET ATWOOD We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, t... MARGARET ATWOOD Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide... MARGARET ATWOOD I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing... MARGARET ATWOOD Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you... MARGARET ATWOOD What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams... MARGARET ATWOOD There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's somethin... MARGARET ATWOOD I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise. MARGARET ATWOOD How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness... MARGARET ATWOOD The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied... MARGARET ATWOOD You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly f... MARGARET ATWOOD Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you sa... MARGARET ATWOOD You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t ne... MARGARET ATWOOD But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion.... MARGARET ATWOOD When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things ... MARGARET ATWOOD Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert... MARGARET ATWOOD It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and set... MARGARET ATWOOD The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds. MARGARET ATWOOD I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose. MARGARET ATWOOD She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy. MARGARET ATWOOD