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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene
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I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch.
Raymond E. Feist
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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
Bonnie Raitt
I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.
Macklemore
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I have had death threats from people with fixations.


Enya
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There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
Christine Lavin
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If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.


Helen Fisher
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There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
Joseph Roux
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Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
Olivia De Havilland
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At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.
Roy Harper
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For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.


Jason Blum
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When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me.
Ashley Monroe
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Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.


Julianne Hough
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God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
Arthur Peacocke
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I've had death threats, if you can imagine.


Pat Boone
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The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.


Jimmy Webb
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James A. Baldwin
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Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.


Paul McCartney
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
Kacey Musgraves
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People don't need to be scared. I tickle sharks. I do, when they swim by.


Michael Muller