There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people, you know what I mean? There's a certain sort of stigma, a sort of kookiness, when it comes to that.
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Related It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There... DAVID LANGE I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spirit... AL FRANKEN We're all trying to figure out what's next, what's best for our families, what's bes... STERLING K. BROWN I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and ... CHARLIE WORSHAM You know, there's nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and an... JANEANE GAROFALO There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands;... HUGH JACKMAN Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and yo... DANIEL BRYAN You know how when you're alone with your cat, your cat is kind of silly and goofy and kind of cr... MICHAELA WATKINS I thought that the 40s was a tough decade, because it's when you finally figure out that you'... JUDITH VIORST Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the s... KIM STANLEY ROBINSON What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think ... RONNIE DUNN When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to recei... GAVIN DEGRAW I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on ... CARRIE COON When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you go... SIMON COWELL When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage. J. B. SMOOVE When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware o... ROBERT IRWIN When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hangi... MICHAEL P. ANDERSON Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ... ERIQ LA SALLE There's a certain steely resolve when you decide to live in a city and decide to raise children ... JOHN ROSS BOWIE I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you&... KOREN ZAILCKAS If you're raised Methodist, Catholicism is a bit of a workout. It's sort of like you're ... DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not... GREG BEHRENDT The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling you... DIANE ARBUS When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that come... ESTHER WILLIAMS When you model, there's no way you can't notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because y... CARA DELEVINGNE When it sort of finally sets in that you're not going to be doing that anymore... it's disap... WILL ARNETT You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do m... AMAURY NOLASCO You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of sha... BEN AFFLECK When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you wr... ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where t... CHUCK PALAHNIUK There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's al... MARILYN MONROE Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of... JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what... H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've pr... JENA MALONE I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like ... NATALIE PORTMAN I think there is sexy. And then there's tacky sexy. When you're young, you can get away with... ANDIE MACDOWELL The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and ... ELLE MACPHERSON When you're young and you're striving, it's all uphill, and it's easier to climb. Th... RON HOWARD When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh, maybe a... SUSAN HAYWARD Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you'... SEAN SPICER I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something th... DAVID MORRISSEY I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic... BRENDON URIE I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and... ADAM SCHLESINGER You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing ... PETE FOUNTAIN When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let i... SEBASTIAN JUNGER My fans mean everything to me - especially the sisters! When you're on 'The View' or you... SHERRI SHEPHERD If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at a... COLUM MCCANN When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it. DAVE GROHL When you're doing a film, you're on a set and you have retakes and you have time to get it r... MEGAN FOX When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortun... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things are... DONALD JUDD I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often ... JACK NICHOLSON When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. Yo... D. A. PENNEBAKER When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional... ROBERT COPPOLA SCHWARTZMAN When you found a company, you feel a deep sense of responsibility for it. I'll care about Dell e... MICHAEL DELL There's a certain level of realness in Philly. You know, just - people are people. You know, it ... JILL SCOTT When doing a series, I look for something that has an idea you can think about, something that I'... DARREN STAR I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not. AIDAN GILLEN I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should al... ADAM CAROLLA I'm one of those people, when I see a film, I believe it to be true. You know, sort of the authe... EDDIE REDMAYNE There's certain songs that you're gonna record that you hope to touch people and change live... TYLER FARR With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wrac... AARON ASHMORE You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. Bu... JOE ROGAN Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you'... ALFRED MOLINA When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you'r... TYLER JOSEPH There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much ... JEFFREY KLUGER There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling. ROBERT CARO Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not e... GEORGE A. ROMERO I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't se... CAROL LEIFER Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That&... ALEX EBERT If it's a very emotional scene, you're kind of relieved when you've done it, kind of spe... ROBERT DE NIRO Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle... ETHAN CANIN It's nice to sort of walk in and at least create the illusion that you are, or your character is... LUKE ROBERTS People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is... EVE ENSLER I'm reasonably easygoing. Messing up my lines or making a fool of myself is where you find my fe... HUGH LAURIE When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing ... AASIF MANDVI When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you. HANK AZARIA It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, beca... WILLEM DAFOE So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just ... JOE CARNAHAN When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrato... LAURA SCHLESSINGER When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and ... MICKALENE THOMAS When you're successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you. When you're... SURESH RAINA With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. Th... VANESSA LACHEY When it comes down to it, you're playing football regardless of what offense you're in. COLIN KAEPERNICK I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'l... BEN AFFLECK When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there ... KEN KESEY There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking th... CHRIS CORNELL A lot of actors would tell you that they'd rather play the villain than the hero. When you'r... TOM ELLIS When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, bu... TAMSIN EGERTON Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. Bu... CLINT EASTWOOD You should see my house. It's sort of explosive. Like a crazy person lives there. SANDRA OH I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, yo... ADDISON TIMLIN Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to k... GEORGE HARRISON I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British ... ERIC MCCORMACK After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see i... ERNEST HEMINGWAY We're more into sort of fluid structures that are simultaneously the most efficient, the most be... SEAN BOOTH There's nothing better than that feeling of new chemistry when you're so into someone, and y... CHRISTINA MILIAN I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what tha... DYLAN MORAN When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort ... LOUIS C. K.
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And part of the strug... DEBORAH EISENBERG As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded. DEBORAH SAMPSON Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with ... DEBORAH TANNEN In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give con... DEBORAH TANNEN For each other, at each other: Sisters can be either or both. The same could be said of people in an... DEBORAH TANNEN The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in clo... DEBORAH COX I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would d... DEBORAH COX Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for ce... DEBORAH WILES God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness. DEBORAH RANEY Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain... 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DEBORAH WILLIAMS It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these ... DEBORAH COX Wisdom is not attained by the journey through life's circumstances and lessons learned, but rather, ... DEBORAH SIMPSON The truth is, it's never about what someone does for you, but rather, what you've done for someone e... DEBORAH SIMPSON The seeds of time are the precious elements that define who we are and carve the path of our future. DEBORAH SIMPSON Spiritualism is not about bending to religious ideology, it is about leading from the spirit. DEBORAH SIMPSON If love needs to be chased, then the chasing isn't worth your love. DEBORAH SIMPSON If you close your eyes sometimes your vision becomes clearer as it is not clouded by pictures. DEBORAH SIMPSON If today is yesterday' s promise, tomorrow certainly holds miraculous wonders. DEBORAH SIMPSON Following the direction of the wind is not necessarily the right direction. Sometimes, walking again... DEBORAH SIMPSON Fear of rejection is a faith in failure DEBORAH SIMPSON A shallow faith is debilitating, even if it fits into your ideals. DEBORAH SIMPSON There comes a time in every man's life when courage is no longer defined by the chances he takes, bu... DEBORAH SIMPSON Boldness often attracts adversity, and the louder the conviction, the more shrilling the opposition.... DEBORAH SIMPSON If the American people do not believe that what they collectively established in the White House is ... DEBORAH SIMPSON We are all artists, painting new canvases every day. Be sure today's picture is what you truly want ... DEBORAH SIMPSON When the light of a falling star washes away into the oblivion, remember that still it shines somewh... DEBORAH SIMPSON If it wasn't for restlessness, serenity wouldn't be cherished. DEBORAH SIMPSON A blind man may be sightless, but still he envisions; a mute may be voiceless, but still he speaks: ... DEBORAH SIMPSON Courage is not about appeasing others, it is about doing what is right in the face of opposition DEBORAH SIMPSON When wealth is measured monetarily, it is often those performing the measuring who are poor. DEBORAH SIMPSON Let graciousness fall today into the laps of the weak, into the hearts of the sorrowful, into the ey... DEBORAH SIMPSON It's not the spirit of a man that grows weary, it's the mind that fails to acknowledge. DEBORAH SIMPSON An inconvenient truth is still truth, nonetheless, whether you accept it or don't. The best thing yo... DEBORAH SIMPSON Wading in the waters of complacency does not do me any justice as those waters simply mimic the bois... DEBORAH SIMPSON I think early retirement is achievable for anyone who seriously wants to do it. It just may mean you... DEBORAH VOSO People often underestimate how much money it takes to live in retirement. DEBORAH VOSO While the requirements of a good leader and a good man are similar, the requirements of a good leade... DEBORAH TANNEN I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic an... DEBORAH HARKNESS Sometime Thursday morning, we heard helicopters outside. Then I heard someone calling my name — 'W... DEBORAH WILLIAMS Even a healthy obssession is a disease that inflicts unhealthy devotion. DEBORAH SIMPSON Strength is not instinctive, the will to succeed over weaknesses is what is instinctive. DEBORAH SIMPSON I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I c... DEBORAH MOGGACH We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups. DEBORAH TANNEN