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I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.
Ma Jian
Thoughts
Memories
Feeling
Live
Universe
Locked
Kind
Return
Within
Continually
Private
Existence
Very
Where
China
Land
Painful
Sometimes compromise is painful.
Madeleine M. Kunin
Sometimes
Compromise
Painful
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
Madonna Ciccone
Religion
Punishment
Soothing
Catholicism
Painful
The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
Mae Whitman
You
Age
Joke
Become
Something
Through
Like
Genre
Sort
Because
Coming
Coming Of Age
Going
Story
Meaningful
Capitalize
Painful
My father left our family for his 'yoga buddy' in 1984, when I was 15. I always stayed in touch with him - I had a deep need to be connected to my father, even though it could be painful at times. I shunned the yoga community because of his actions but eventually realized that yoga could be the antidote to my pain.
Mandy Ingber
Family
Father
Pain
Community
Our
Though
Stayed
Touch
Could
Had
Buddy
Him
Because
Always
His
Left
Antidote
Times
Yoga
Realized
Painful
Connected
Deep
Actions
Even
Eventually
Shunned
Need
Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.
Mandy Patinkin
Work
Art
Sometimes
Difficult
Make
Very
Trying
Painful
I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
Manolo Blahnik
Deal
Very
Shoe
Create
Painful
Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.
Maria Semple
Art
Alone
Time
Courage
Practice
Takes
Creating
Stand
Painful
I think the idea that life ends when we physically die is as painful as the idea in Cromwell's time that there's some awful purgatory, and you have to give money to the Catholic church to get your loved ones out. I certainly have experienced a lot of evidence that there's a consciousness that isn't physical.
Mark Rylance
Life
Time
You
Money
Church
Think
Evidence
Out
Physical
Some
Purgatory
Give
Physically
Idea
Catholic
Catholic Church
Lot
Get
Die
Ends
Experienced
Loved
Loved Ones
Your
Certainly
Painful
Awful
Consciousness
We all struggle. Life is not fun. A lot of times, it's really painful and hard. Sometimes it's really funny. 'Foxcatcher' is kind of like a metaphor for that.
Mark Schultz
Life
Funny
Struggle
Sometimes
Kind
Like
Metaphor
Lot
Times
Really
Hard
Painful
Fun
Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens.
Marquis de Lafayette
Me
Own
Nothing
State
Guided
Consoles
Paris
Idea
Foreigners
Persecuted
Infernal
Tranquil
Being
Painful
Appears
Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.'
Martha Beck
Memory
Events
Losing
Out
Stroke
Scars
Emotional
Had
True
Baggage
Leave
Years
Taylor
Turns
Painful
Who
Event
Largely
Her
Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.
Martin Landau
Life
Work
Me
Value
My Life
Everything
Those
Were
Been
Happened
Certain
Use
Certain Things
Painful
Things
The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.
Martin Lewis Perl
Today
Me
World
Sometimes
Parents
Outside
Schools
Learned
Deal
Often
Hard
Painful
Early
Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.
Marton Csokas
You
Sometimes
Like
Look
Stunt
Becomes
Repetition
Quite
Painful
Things
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.
Mary Antin
Life
Slow
First
Own
Birth
Later
Once
Those
Bits
Born
Spirit
Exceedingly
Attentive
Body
Painful
Who
Growth
Inner
Inner Life
I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.
Mary J. Blige
Great
You
Suffering
Hurts
First
Looking
Pain
Months
Bad
Gym
Results
Great Results
Hot
Along
Like
Couple
Been
Going
Diet
Just
After
Really
Painful
Growing
Right
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Death
Knowledge
Animals
Nothing
Our
More
Merely
Know
Than
Die
Us
Painful
Helps
Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.
Michael Cadnum
Truth
Myself
Sometimes
Language
Deceived
Think
Eye
Tell
Characters
Oath
Lied
About
Through
Write
Putting
Spoken
Hear
Just
Realization
Painful
I think that the shame of being different is very painful for a lot of people.
Min Jin Lee
People
Think
Shame
Lot
Very
Being
Different
Being Different
Painful
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
Mitch Daniels
Government
You
Suffering
Experience
Will
Pain
Spending
Say
Slightest
Stay
Prevents
Call
Track
Real
Reductions
Government Spending
Real Pain
Just
Want
Much
Painful
Why
I go through a lot of painful things. There are sessions when I will be on my back afterwards, crawling.
Mo Farah
Will
Back
Through
Go
Lot
Afterwards
Crawling
Painful
Things
I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.
Nancy Wilson
Memory
Delete
Had
Feel
Like
Lot
Situations
Intentionally
Painful
If you don't like a film or do a film out of obligation in a comfortable zone, it would be very painful, but when you do something with passion, interest, and belief in it, it excites you.
Nani
You
Obligation
Passion
Out
Would
Would-Be
Something
Excites
Like
Comfortable
Very
Interest
Painful
Belief
Film
Zone
I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
Natalie Dormer
You
Internet
Beauty
Criticise
Know
Concerned
Read
Aesthetically
Lot
As Far As
Conventional
Which
Far
Painful
Actress
Things
I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.
Neil Diamond
Music
Great
Heart
Sometimes
Light
Own
Bit
Inside
Something
My Own
Drill
Write
Self
Put
Talent
Come
Audience
Learnt
Tap
Up
May
Little
Little Bit
Painful
Connect
Deep
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