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Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
The painful part of being a new writer on 'ER' is that you come on with all these great ideas, and you find out we've already done them.
...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.
I've had some unbelievable successes, and I've also learned painful lessons through failures so low I can hardly stand to think of them.
It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.
You can't really make something or make a movie and feel all through the process that it's a painful thing. It's not possible to do that.
It is true that the U.S. could and should have been more generous as Russia made its painful transition to a market economy in the 1990s.
If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.
I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.
I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.
I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal.
You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.
Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes.
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.
There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I here? What am I doing?"
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.
Live records of mine are very painful to listen to because you always think you can do it better. I don't think I have a single favorite one.
Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.
Fame doesn't matter; people approving of you doesn't matter. And if it does matter, you're in store for something very difficult and painful.
The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.
Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.
Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?
It's very painful to lose, and it's a very difficult process to go through, especially at a place like UCLA where the standards are very high.
During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.
Liberty never had to file bankruptcy, thanks to God's blessings, but we did go through tough times and painful debt restructuring in the 1990s.
How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!
The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him
I had a body wax. It's the most painful thing I have ever done in my life. I had every single hair on my body pulled out, and I really bruised.
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.
I wish I could teleport and cut out the travelling in between gigs. I want the luxury of the shows without the painful bits stuck on a tour bus.
It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your body goes into incredible protection mode.
Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.
I never really got the chance to scream about some of the painful things. In the book, I look at my whole life experience, at ego and fame, too.
When you do everything you can to be an F1 driver and suddenly it stops, it's not painful but it's definitely not something you were looking for.
Sometimes in order for change to be made in a positive fashion, we must force ourselves to look unblinkingly at painful realities and reevaluate.
The downsides of globalization are indeed painful, ... But taking the bigger pills against its ills is superior to living inside a sterile bubble.
Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.
Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.
All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.
My parents tried to sell me. I was looking for a way to share my feelings, so I started to rap to talk about the painful experience of being a girl.
I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new.
And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.
I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful.
When I do solo material I definitely tend to overthink it. I make a lot of rules for myself that are a little bit arbitrary and... it's just painful.
What I find very painful are all these charges that democracy is really shaken in Poland, that we have been switching into some authoritarian regime.
True balm [of fantasy] takes away the painful irritation of life and simply heals, allowing one to begin anew. And that is what fantasy can do for us.