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I do find acting cathartic. -- Francesca Annis
There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic. -- Dave Chappelle
Being so honest in my writing is cathartic. -- Brian Molko
Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma. -- Robin Williams
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song. -- Ville Valo
I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative. -- Lisa Marie Presley
My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one. -- Jim Beaver
For me, working out is a form of therapy. It's cathartic for me; it's a good stress reliever. I know that when I go to the gym I am taking care of myself, and I know I'll feel so much better afterwards. -- Bob Harper
It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect. -- Ed Helms
Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls. -- Ellen Pompeo
Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. . -- John Milton
Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion. -- Nic Pizzolatto
Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival. -- Trent Reznor
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation... -- Aldous Huxley
... laughter is cathartic and cleansing, that it's good for the body and the soul, and when it's real it's better than sex. -- Patricia Gaffney
I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing. -- Renee Fleming
Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody. -- Lisa Marie Presley
We want to see drama told in a cathartic way, with power, with emotion where you empathize and then you're frightened. All those feelings charge up in you and you feel for the story. -- Danny Boyle
I remember seeing Richard Pryor's first movie; it was a midnight movie when I was in high school. I must have been about fifteen. It was one of the most cathartic experiences of my life. I'd never laughed that much. -- Marc Maron
I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment. -- Charlie Huston
I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic. I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm. -- Adam Croasdell
Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt every hour of the day by ordinary people, but is repressed for reasons of social order. I think it would be very cathartic, and it would certainly make for an exciting six o'clock news. -- George Carlin
People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful! -- Pattie Boyd
Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life. -- Sarah McLachlan
Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified at a festival. -- Trent Reznor
A lot of people say it's cathartic to cook, and I'm like, 'How is it cathartic washing all these dishes?' -- Sherri Shepherd
I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic. -- Rachel Nichols
I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming. -- Linus Torvalds
Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey. -- Alanis Morissette
Playing live is what it's all about for me. It's cathartic, it's emotional, it's about communing with people. The way you feel after a gig is a such a powerful thing. -- Paul Weller
Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating. -- Francesca Lia Block
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there. -- Koren Zailckas
I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue. -- Dhani Harrison
The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way. -- Sharon Van Etten
So if you're on the motorcycle, on the track you're not thinking at all about what's happening next week or tomorrow or anything. You're literally thinking about the turn you're setting up and there's something about that I find very cathartic and meditative. -- Dax Shepard
We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart. -- Bonnie Raitt
Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not wax in tranquil times; it is a cathartic response to serious problems. But it always wanes because it never seems serious as a solution. -- George Will
Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream. -- Charles Hazlewood
Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.' -- Nicholas Jarecki
Tart, cathartic virtue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great art is cathartic; it is always moral. -- Joyce Carol Oates
There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated. -- Robert Pinsky
Music for me is very therapeutic, it's very cathartic. -- Sarah Barthel
My head translates emotions into song. Songwriting is cathartic for me. -- Antoniette Costa
I love to write and do photography, as a cathartic experience. -- Dan Payne
I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun. -- Cary Elwes
There's something cathartic about swearing 150 times after spending ten hours in the editing room. -- Liev Schreiber
Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience. -- Mark Hoppus
The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace-- -- Oliver Sacks
Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. -- Yann Martel
The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange. -- Oliver Jeffers
And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing. -- Sarah McLachlan
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. -- Koren Zailckas
I was very happy, I think part of the point of this creativity is to do something that helps you in a cathartic sense. -- Winston Graham
I like to play music that people can feel deeply but it's also interesting to listen to - a nice balance between cathartic and pop music. -- Max Bemis
In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove. -- Cassandra Clare
Watching my own past heartache and experience day after day - it was gut-wrenching, cathartic, beautiful, and painful. That and shooting the film in less than a month. -- Leslye Headland
We're taught as young kids Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He didn't just try to blame someone else. -- Mark Foley
I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general. -- Paul Bettany
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I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental. -- Paul Simon
No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Readings are more like weaving a tapestry. Possibly people are getting a cathartic release - but music is physical. Music pummels you. It's got a beat; it's loud. Whereas this is more cerebral. -- John Darnielle

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