Mary Karr Quote: 'I'm doomed to act like myself, ...' @FEELquotes

The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.

John Tavener

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Even as a kid, I would always imagine horrible circumstances in which I would find myself in my head, and imagine how I would feel, and act it out a bit for myself, because I was a bit of a freak like that. I love doing things like that, and I get a real buzz from it afterwards.

Laura Fraser

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When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.

Said Nursi

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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

Arnold Bennett

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Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

Rene Char

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I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.

Katy Perry

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Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Henry Miller

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I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.

Kristin Gore

Tags: Truth Some Since

Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible.

Ronda Rousey

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Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

Nick Cave

Tags: Take Myself Away

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Tags: Cannot Itself Reform

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

Drew Barrymore

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Anywhere from 40% to 60% of people, when they're given a requisition by a doctor to go get tested, don't, because they're scared of needles or the locations are inconvenient or the cost is too high. And if you're not even getting tested, how is it possible that we're going to move toward an era of preventive medicine?

Elizabeth Holmes

Tags: You People Because

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.

Townes Van Zandt

Tags: Good Like Them

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

Lillie Langtry

Tags: Time Say First

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

Jena Malone

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The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.

Barton Gellman

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To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing.

John Garfield

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A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Walter Lippmann

Tags: He Man Though

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

Graeme Le Saux

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