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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

Taiye Selasi

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ExperienceLanguageFeelLongI Can

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

KnowThemselvesLearnedEverFully

I started singing before I started tweeting, actually. It was always a passion... I started singing, and then I got into acting. Singing is something I love to do. I feel very confident doing it.

Millie Bobby Brown

LovePassionSingingConfidentDoing

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

ManMiserableThinksHe

Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.

Loni Love

GirlMeEnvironmentOutThingsTook

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

Joshua Bell

BestWayOutInterpretationBest Way

Anytime you do anything, you want to know who was the best at it.

Jon Beason

BestYouKnowWantAnythingWho

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

Douglas Adams

WeatherFarmerYouComplainingFix

For me, anytime I see a mother truly loving her child, famous or not, it brings a smile to my face. I think most people would agree.

Coco Rocha

SmileMotherChildPeopleMeFace

Donald Trump outsources his ties to China. He outsourced his furniture to Turkey. I know a company in Ohio that could make that furniture in Archibald, Ohio.

Sherrod Brown

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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

Seth Godin

DecisionWritingFindTryWrite

It is through technological innovation and the pursuit of sustainable social, economic, and ecological development that we can chart the country's path to progress and power a greener tomorrow.

Tulsi Tanti

InnovationPowerPathProgress

I first started doing some somewhat technology-based shows in the '80s. If you wanted to get real technical about it, back in the '70s I used to open up with Utopia with just me on the stage with a four-track tape recorder. So, technically, I've been using the help of various devices pretty much throughout my career.

Todd Rundgren

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