I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.
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AMY PLUM I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. A...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Yeah, right, like Catherine Deneuve has her own hot-guy SWAT team trolling the neighborhood for cele...
AMY PLUM Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had ...
GISELE BUNDCHEN I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as...
BARUCH SPINOZA I love you so fucking much, my naughty, sweet Plum.
CHRISTINA LAUREN Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEE Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEE Me, personally, I felt like we had to make a statement.
CEDRIC SIMMONS You know, I felt very vulnerable.
FRAN DRESCHER That would be a real plum,
MARK WHITE empowered folks that had never been empowered before.
ROY BARNES Rory: Amy. I'm gonna need a little help here.
Amy: Just stop it!
Rory: Just think it throu...
STEVEN MOFFAT I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable....
LAURA FRASER It would make sense that we'd start to see prices fall now that the storm has had less impact than w...
SEAN COMEY I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remem...
BERNARD CORNWELL If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feare...
LAJOS KOSSUTH I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't ...
MARGARET CHO I learn every day what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me fe...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS It wasn't so much that Lola Plum believed she'd learned her lesson in love. Lola Plum was just reali...
SHANNON NOELLE LONG I didn't think he was in love with me and I had no idea what I felt for him, but he wanted me, and m...
LEIGH BARDUGO I didn’t fear you. I feared us. I feared what could have been. I feared what could be. I feared th...
DOMINIC RICCITELLO I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.
MARY E. DEMUTH I felt that everyone had the same sentiments when it came to love that I did. I felt like if you rea...
MUSIQ SOULCHILD I felt it was appalling. That was a real vulnerable part of our country.
CAROL TRACY I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I don't feel like they betrayed me. It's just a tough situation. I'm disappointed. I felt like I had...
BRONSON ARROYO It was really painful. I just felt so vulnerable that someone could, with the stroke of a pen, cut m...
JEANA FRAZZINI I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do some...
SAMMI HANRATTY I feared the St. Catherine would capsize if I turned sideways into the wind to make a turn to go bac...
SALAH JOMAA Yes, we had a talk with Amy as we felt she had so much more to offer us. We're glad we did.
ALBIE HAWEA I am empowered and thankful for my parents’ love and support.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE I should have felt proud, but instead I felt awful. That I had let him down so many times, that I ha...
DAVID LEVITHAN But I really would love to give her a very special gift. I was hoping if I did, she might give me a ...
JESSICA DAY GEORGE Instead of communicating "I love you, so let me make life easy for you," I decided that my message n...
KAY WILLS WYMA I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me ...
STEVIE WONDER Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something th...
SCOTT WEILAND She was scared. I pictured the police knocking, and here I was with a girl I'd been fucking the morn...
GILLIAN FLYNN I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took ...
PUSHA T Make him love you,” Ruthless Me whispered. “Make it so he can’t live without you. The devil yo...
C.J. ROBERTS Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read
HARPER LEE Suddenly it felt like there was a ticking time bomb in the house. I didn’t have all the time in th...
NATASHA ANDERS I just loved Amy Winehouse. I would rather have managed her than anybody in the world. To me, it was...
JERRY HELLER God, make me blind so i can never see her face again...God, make me deaf so i can never hear her voi...
JORDAN PETERS I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid ...
JOHN KNOWLES And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all...
MICHAEL JACKSON I felt blessed. That's a hard thing to say that having cancer is a blessing, but I was blessed and h...
LARRY WILLIAMSON Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I felt that if I would chew a certain way and the director would let me do whatever.
SOFIA VERGARA I love men who make me laugh.
NASTASSJA KINSKI I originally feared she might be dead, which felt like a sealed book that I would never be able to r...
JANET LOUISE STEPHENSON I felt that I had a good, smart race for sectionals. I felt that I didn't over swim it and I felt co...
KRIS HUSNICK I felt I had to make the decision on my own,
BILL GARDNER I had a gut feeling that Dance Daily was coming up to it very well. I felt that she would make a lit...
D. WAYNE LUKAS I definitely didn't want to sit out, but that was a sacrifice I felt I had to make.
DAVID JOHNSON Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by ...
MARY MACLANE I told him that I would love him with everything I had in me until the very end of everything, and I...
SARAH OCKLER The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some ...
PATRICK CHAPPATTE I was wide open and I felt like I had to make it and that I was going to make it if I shot it.
DUSTIN MURRAY I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
VINCE GILL To love without limits is to make one's self truly vulnerable.
TROY J. GAINEY The odds were against me when I arrived at Central Arkansas. I was barely 6-foot-2 and didn't ha...
SCOTTIE PIPPEN I was certainly more vulnerable, in a sense, but I also felt more open to it, ... Elizabethtown.
CAMERON CROWE Every player had a roommate for out-of-town games, so I had to slip into the bathroom early each mor...
RON SANTO No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my mu...
UTADA HIKARU I felt so relaxed. It just felt very easy, and that's why it surprised me that I had broken my w...
KATIE LEDECKY I felt like a piece of my heart had been taken away from me, not knowing if I would ever see her aga...
CARL DODD I believe that 20-somethings would be more likely to embrace experimentation - and provide additiona...
CATHY ENGELBERT I love you,' cooed Fake Amy. 'You dance so much better than the Doctor.'
'Silly.' Real Amy nudg...
JAMES GOSS I felt comfortable going into those last five or six holes that par was going to be a good score. Th...
MORRIS HATALSKY I am powerful in my love for myself. The truth of my being is I love myself exactly as I am. I honor...
AMY LEIGH MERCREE If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL There's this nurse standing over Nathanial's bed and she was crying. (Amy) had been keeping track fo...
DEAN THORN At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I di...
GUY KAWASAKI I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute.
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable i...
TUCKER MAX I love someone who can make me laugh. And someone who's secure - I think that's sexy.
ROSELYN SANCHEZ I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, e...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I felt like my heart had been ripped out. I felt like my husband had been killed again. I felt like ...
ROSEMARY DILLARD My wife and I love children. We have five of our own. I would ask that anyone who looks up to me wou...
ALBERT PUJOLS I had to make you love me." His dark eyes meet mine. "What I didn't count on is falling in love with...
LAURA BRADLEY REDE In 'Straight Talking,' I had bared my soul, and the press attention had been overwhelming. T...
JANE GREEN I seen the look in your eyes...I reached out to touch you but feared I would mark your skin. I do no...
FAYE HALL I feared my soul was dying, being replaced by the monster I would become.
NELY CAB Not to take anything away from Murrah, because they have a very good team, but we felt our experienc...
BRITTANY DAVIDSON When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they w...
KHLOE KARDASHIAN I felt a smile on my face. "Thanks." "For what?" "Using my name instead of calling me a thing.
JOHN CORWIN What was it like?” Manon asked quietly. “To love.” For love was what it had been—what Asteri...
SARAH J. MAAS Various parts of my body told me that in the future they would appreciate it if I slept lying down o...
LEMONY SNICKET I went to boarding school in Somerset and loved it so much that my teachers had to make me phone hom...
ELLA EYRE In 2001 New York came under attack, and thousands of people simply evaporated, leaving behind only d...
JOE PANTOLIANO I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum ja...
LINDA THOMPSON I let go of false hope. I let go of the hope that they would transform in favour of working on my ow...
DARLENE OUIMET I often say that if I had a prayer, it would be this: God, spare me from the desire for love, approv...
BYRON KATIE I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I pr...
BECK I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I f...
CYNTHIA VOIGT I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to ...
ERICA EISDORFER I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity.
EVA MENDES I had seen a different side of her, the one where she didn't feel threatened by me, and I liked that...
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Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
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AMY TAN Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't tr...
AMY POEHLER When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accuse...
AMY ADAMS I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd ba...
AMY HECKERLING I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on t...
AMY CHILDS Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...
AMY TAN We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappines...
AMY CHUA I just don't do the treadmill; I hate that. I do Pilates and yoga. I've recently joined aeri...
AMY JACKSON Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a...
AMY TAN I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, ...
AMY POEHLER I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my...
AMY SEDARIS As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other peop...
AMY POEHLER When you read about the lives of other people, people of different circumstances or similar circumst...
AMY TAN People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.&...
AMY TAN My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was ...
AMY TAN It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
AMY TAN I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what ...
AMY TAN I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of ...
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