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UZO ADUBA![]()
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BRITNEY SPEARS When my dad was playing in Winnipeg in '72-I was about 8 years old-he took me to my first outdoor ri...
BRETT HULL![]()
The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, an...
GARY ZUKAV![]()
the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life.
BRITNEY SPEARS When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on en...
BILL WALTON![]()
Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA![]()
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psycho...
JONI MITCHELL![]()
Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains...
NATALIE DORMER In my case, I was placing extreme pressure on my lower spine from rotating my hips too much. This is...
RICKIE FOWLER As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
TAIYE SELASI I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of pl...
TAIYE SELASI I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went ...
TAIYE SELASI I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
TAIYE SELASI That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere...
TAIYE SELASI I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautifu...
TAIYE SELASI When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everyt...
TAIYE SELASI As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
TAIYE SELASI I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ...
TAIYE SELASI So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if...
TAIYE SELASI The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra...
TAIYE SELASI As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their w...
TAIYE SELASI The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don...
TAIYE SELASI When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely fe...
TAIYE SELASI I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S...
TAIYE SELASI The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
TAIYE SELASI Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything t...
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TAIYE SELASI I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
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TAIYE SELASI She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the wo...
TAIYE SELASI In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to ...
FARRAH FAWCETT![]()
Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me ...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Within five minutes, he was in excruciating pain, drawing his knees up.
DOROTHY JONES He's in excruciating pain every day, and he chooses to go to work every day.
ANNE ROSS![]()
The only thing that comes close to defining me correctly is my love.
KAMAND KOJOURI![]()
Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.
AMIT RAY![]()
Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory cam...
JAMES E. FAUST![]()
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people w...
ELIE WIESEL Sometimes the most excruciating experiences in rehearsals and performances yield the most beautiful ...
ROGER REES Twisting your hips is where all the power in your punches and kicks comes from.
DAVID GRIFFITH![]()
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute eleganc...
WYNTON MARSALIS![]()
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that...
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My family is the most important thing to me.
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Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a...
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Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that ...
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My private life is the most precious thing to me.
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CARL HONORE![]()
For with knowledge comes pain. To limit the pain I limit my answers.
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ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU![]()
Why is it that crisis pushes me to my own devices when those devices are frequently the very things ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH![]()
My pain threshold is quite high when it comes to vanity.
TRINNY WOODALL![]()
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.
DIANA GABALDON![]()
The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 f...
JOHNNY BENCH![]()
That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ![]()
Excruciating agony makes me cranky.
BRANDON MULL Here comes the rain again.
Falling on my arms like a tragedy.
Reminding me of pain, as the...
SHILLPI S BANERRJI Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.
TALULAH RILEY The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.
LILLIE LANGTRY Never will you understand the pain that is overwhelming my soul. Hiding behind my smile and joyful e...
MARIAH REBECCA ARGUELLO![]()
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yo...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA![]()
With each drop of tear that we shed in our times of excruciating pain, our brain constructs majestic...
ABHIJIT NASKAR The most luxurious thing to me is having an hour of my day, which rarely happens, to listen to my iP...
GRANT ACHATZ![]()
I feel your words on my lips
and feel your mood in my hips
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN I detach myself from preconceived outcomes and trust that all is well. Being myself allows the whole...
ANITA MOORJANI The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it's one of the most excruciating sports ...
MILA KUNIS![]()
Yoga did not just help me with my body, I became fitter from within. It helped me to focus better. I...
SHILPA SHETTY![]()
My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.
SHARON SALZBERG I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization...
RAY WALSTON I don't wear my heart on my sleeve. I wear it on my hips.
S.M. COLEY I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music...
BENNY BLANCO![]()
I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself,...
GILLIAN ANDERSON![]()
Immediately after the explosion he turned to his producer and said 'Am I alive?' and 'Don't tell Lee...
TOM BROKAW![]()
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL![]()
Incidentally, sir, while we're on the topic of yoga - may I just say that an hour of deep breathing,...
ARAVIND ADIGA![]()
In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man what ...
MARK TWAIN I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciatin...
BROOKE BURNS![]()
I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a b...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY Sometimes the title is the last thing that comes to me. Sometimes it's the first.
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I'm sure there's absolutely nothing in my life, including the loss of life of many of my loved ones,...
KENNETH LAY I don't want to blame it on my hips, but it's just kind of been hard at times playing with bad hips....
JOE COHEN All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to ...
GRAHAM NORTON This morning after yoga, I laid in the grass and watched the white clouds go by as the Earth turned ...
ERIKA B. My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is th...
JEWEL In that instant, I realized that if I focused on the pain and misery, it would take me longer to hea...
SHARON E. RAINEY My mother is a certainty. I can count on the watercolour pain in her voice when she calls to say she...
TREVOR COLE I'm so glad we met when we did. Even if you were an enormous pain in my ass you're still the best th...
CHRISTINA LAUREN My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that freque...
DAVID KNOPFLER![]()
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy...
ELLEN DEGENERES![]()
I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's ...
LIZA MINNELLI I'm a hard worker, very driven, and have never expected anything to come easily. My yoga, a grea...
RAQUEL WELCH It is freedom that makes this the greatest country in the world. And it is freedom that so frequentl...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW I don't accept the maxim 'there's no gain without pain', physical or emotional. I believe it is poss...
ALEXA MCLAUGHLIN I am feeling good with my shoulder and this is the most important thing. I have no pain and I know t...
CARLOS MOYA![]()
The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.
BEBE REXHA
UZO ADUBA
I don't want to go through the pain. My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ... BRITNEY SPEARS When my dad was playing in Winnipeg in '72-I was about 8 years old-he took me to my first outdoor ri...
BRETT HULL
The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, an... GARY ZUKAV
the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. BRITNEY SPEARS When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on en...
BILL WALTON
Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing. VIRONIKA TUGALEVA
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psycho... JONI MITCHELL
Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable. RICHELLE E. GOODRICH My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains...
NATALIE DORMER In my case, I was placing extreme pressure on my lower spine from rotating my hips too much. This is...
RICKIE FOWLER As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
TAIYE SELASI I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of pl...
TAIYE SELASI I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went ...
TAIYE SELASI I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
TAIYE SELASI That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere...
TAIYE SELASI I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautifu...
TAIYE SELASI When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everyt...
TAIYE SELASI As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
TAIYE SELASI I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ...
TAIYE SELASI So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if...
TAIYE SELASI The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra...
TAIYE SELASI As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their w...
TAIYE SELASI The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don...
TAIYE SELASI When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely fe...
TAIYE SELASI I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S...
TAIYE SELASI The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
TAIYE SELASI Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything t...
TAIYE SELASI Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't...
TAIYE SELASI I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
TAIYE SELASI I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they&...
TAIYE SELASI She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the wo...
TAIYE SELASI In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to ...
FARRAH FAWCETT
Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me ... CHRIS CRUTCHER Within five minutes, he was in excruciating pain, drawing his knees up.
DOROTHY JONES He's in excruciating pain every day, and he chooses to go to work every day.
ANNE ROSS
The only thing that comes close to defining me correctly is my love. KAMAND KOJOURI
Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society. AMIT RAY
Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory cam... JAMES E. FAUST
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people w... ELIE WIESEL Sometimes the most excruciating experiences in rehearsals and performances yield the most beautiful ...
ROGER REES Twisting your hips is where all the power in your punches and kicks comes from.
DAVID GRIFFITH
Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute eleganc... WYNTON MARSALIS
Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched t... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that... R. D. LAING
My family is the most important thing to me. KIMORA LEE SIMMONS
Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny th... HARUKI MURAKAMI
Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a... SCOTT WESTERFELD My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent tw...
BILL WALTON
My exercise varies from yoga to Pilates. The yoga provides me with achieving my balance and mental r... ERIN HEATHERTON
Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that ... FRIDA KAHLO
My private life is the most precious thing to me. LEONA LEWIS
The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this messa... CARL HONORE
For with knowledge comes pain. To limit the pain I limit my answers. NICHOLAS SPARKS For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the mo...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU
Why is it that crisis pushes me to my own devices when those devices are frequently the very things ... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
My pain threshold is quite high when it comes to vanity. TRINNY WOODALL
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true. DIANA GABALDON
The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 f... JOHNNY BENCH
That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life. CHARLES M. SCHULZ
Excruciating agony makes me cranky. BRANDON MULL Here comes the rain again.
Falling on my arms like a tragedy.
Reminding me of pain, as the...
SHILLPI S BANERRJI Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.
TALULAH RILEY The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.
LILLIE LANGTRY Never will you understand the pain that is overwhelming my soul. Hiding behind my smile and joyful e...
MARIAH REBECCA ARGUELLO
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yo... SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA
With each drop of tear that we shed in our times of excruciating pain, our brain constructs majestic... ABHIJIT NASKAR The most luxurious thing to me is having an hour of my day, which rarely happens, to listen to my iP...
GRANT ACHATZ
I feel your words on my lipsand feel your mood in my hips
MAQUITA DONYEL IRVIN I detach myself from preconceived outcomes and trust that all is well. Being myself allows the whole...
ANITA MOORJANI The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it's one of the most excruciating sports ...
MILA KUNIS
Yoga did not just help me with my body, I became fitter from within. It helped me to focus better. I... SHILPA SHETTY
My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats. SHARON SALZBERG I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization...
RAY WALSTON I don't wear my heart on my sleeve. I wear it on my hips.
S.M. COLEY I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music...
BENNY BLANCO
I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself,... GILLIAN ANDERSON
Immediately after the explosion he turned to his producer and said 'Am I alive?' and 'Don't tell Lee... TOM BROKAW
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL
Incidentally, sir, while we're on the topic of yoga - may I just say that an hour of deep breathing,... ARAVIND ADIGA
In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man what ... MARK TWAIN I actually had kind of one of those crazy experiences where when I hit, it was black out excruciatin...
BROOKE BURNS
I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a b... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY Sometimes the title is the last thing that comes to me. Sometimes it's the first.
ELMER KELTON
I'm sure there's absolutely nothing in my life, including the loss of life of many of my loved ones,... KENNETH LAY I don't want to blame it on my hips, but it's just kind of been hard at times playing with bad hips....
JOE COHEN All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to ...
GRAHAM NORTON This morning after yoga, I laid in the grass and watched the white clouds go by as the Earth turned ...
ERIKA B. My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is th...
JEWEL In that instant, I realized that if I focused on the pain and misery, it would take me longer to hea...
SHARON E. RAINEY My mother is a certainty. I can count on the watercolour pain in her voice when she calls to say she...
TREVOR COLE I'm so glad we met when we did. Even if you were an enormous pain in my ass you're still the best th...
CHRISTINA LAUREN My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that freque...
DAVID KNOPFLER
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy... ELLEN DEGENERES
I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's ... LIZA MINNELLI I'm a hard worker, very driven, and have never expected anything to come easily. My yoga, a grea...
RAQUEL WELCH It is freedom that makes this the greatest country in the world. And it is freedom that so frequentl...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW I don't accept the maxim 'there's no gain without pain', physical or emotional. I believe it is poss...
ALEXA MCLAUGHLIN I am feeling good with my shoulder and this is the most important thing. I have no pain and I know t...
CARLOS MOYA
The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw. BEBE REXHA
