"I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful."
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"Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar."
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"It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history."
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"The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb."
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"Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice"
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"It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them."
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"I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch."
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"The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms."
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"Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely."
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"The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves."
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"Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful."
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"There's a thing about cocaine - when I was doing it secretly, it didn't make me very sociable. I forget how others were, but it made me very inner-directed. So being in a sketch and rehearsing and the "hail fellow well met" camaraderie and all that stuff, I couldn't fake that or force that. It was painful."
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"If you're never called, then you don't know any better. If you are called and don't answer the call, then that is the most difficult and painful. If you are called and do answer the call, it is the adventure of your life."
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"One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier."
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"There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness."
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"History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks."
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"It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place."
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"And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life."
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"The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love."
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"To this day writing is the most painful thing to do."
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