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  • I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting. -- Rhys Ifans
  • People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction. -- Paul Theroux
  • Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it. -- Tina Brown
  • My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else. -- T-Pain
  • People talk about the pain of defeat, but I think defeat has a lot of value. I think the wound of victory can be even more damaging than defeat. Very few people really know how to win. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
  • When we talk about my music, it's a cross between Tina Turner, Alanis Morrisette, and Diana Ross. It's the glamour and the showiness of Diana Ross; the ferociousness and pain of Tina Turner; and the vocals of Alanis. -- Wynter Gordon
  • Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain. -- Chris Crutcher
  • Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain. -- Robert Winston
  • In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If you've never said anything, there are no sound bites to haunt you when you're crying into a box of Kleenex after it all goes wrong. -- Lily James
  • Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to. -- Martha Beck
  • The talk-box thing that T-Pain does is something new and different for this generation because they don't know about Zapp or Teddy Riley. I think he's creative and has made the talk-box his own in the hip-hop world, but if these young ones studied their musical history, they'd know that. -- Keith Sweat
  • I made 'Prozac Nation' necessary reading because I write necessarily. I tell my story because it is about everyone else: in 1993, people took pills to relieve the pain just like they do now, but it scared them; it doesn't any more, because talk is not cheap at all - it is tender. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured. -- Isabel Wilkerson
  • I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else. -- Jessie J
  • I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully. -- Hugh Laurie
  • So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart. -- Tina Turner
  • Whether you're talking about bees, dogs, or women, pain can come upon you quickly from either one of em. -- Phil Robertson
  • So what if it's risky? It's the right thing to do. What we're talking about is 160 people in deep pain. It only affects them. -- Bill Richardson
  • Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain. -- John Bradshaw
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