Overwhelming, discombobulating, irrational and unreasonable.
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It can be as light as a feather or as heavy as a stone.
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Mary McCartney
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It feels healthy and it makes your body tingle and you feel excited to be alive.
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Paul Heaton
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Like someone is hitting your heart with a cricket bat.
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Like hunger, which feels like anxiousness, which feels like fear, which feels like excitement.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗
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People who make you wait around for them.
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When I see videos of animal cruelty.
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Paying my rent and being able to support my family from making music.
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Skydiving: the parachute got tangled around my legs.
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He came, he laughed, he left.
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