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Then someone started pounding on the door. And not a little "Hey, what's up?" pound. Like there was a big sale on door pounds down at the Pound Outlet. Buy one, get one free at Pounds-n-Stuff. --Being the Journal of Abby Normal -- Christopher Moore
Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role. -- Jeremy London
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt. -- Christina Aguilera
For me, drawing was an outlet. No one in school said, 'Oh, she can do sports,' or, 'She's pretty,' but I could draw. -- Roz Chast
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium. -- Maynard James Keenan
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. -- Allen Ginsberg
Since I was a kid, I always felt the need to share the music I love with as many people as possible, and DJing seemed like the perfect outlet. -- Tiesto
Having an audience is almost like plugging me into an electrical outlet. People feed me so much of their energy. We have a great time. It's all about the fellowship. -- Paula Deen
The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated. -- Jose Rizal
The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes - but that's the same with any creative outlet. -- Tess Gerritsen
When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business. -- Joey Ramone
I'm trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don't only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally. -- Busta Rhymes
If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers. -- Bill Gates
I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around. -- Fred Astaire
I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner. -- Emma Stone
The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances. -- Kurt Sutter
A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don't have that outlet. -- Terrell Owens
I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet. -- Garrett Hedlund
Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference. -- Ian Somerhalder
When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day. -- Drew Bledsoe
In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself. -- Halle Berry
I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet. -- Judy Blume
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words. -- Arnold Schoenberg
I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.' -- Anna Kendrick
Often I have heard the taunt that suffragists are women who have failed to find any normal outlet for their emotions, and are therefore soured and disappointed beings. This is probably not true of any suffragist, and it is most certainly not true of me. My home life and relations have been as nearly ideal as possible in this imperfect world. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
Country has been a wonderful outlet for me. -- Suzy Bogguss
Singing was the big focus and outlet for me. -- Debra Wilson
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet. -- George Eliot
I just write from how I feel. As an outlet. -- Ronnie Radke
If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering, -- Geoffrey Gorer
When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet. -- Justin Bartha
I vent through my music. That's the only outlet I have. -- Kevin Gates
I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy. -- Nat Wolff
I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time. -- John Cariani
I love design, so it's important for me to have a creative outlet. -- Mark Parker
I wouldn't go in a fast food outlet even to use the toilet. -- Jonny Wilkinson
Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet. -- Chico Hamilton
No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality. -- William Feather
I want to be different, and fashion gives me that outlet to do that. -- Ryan Lochte
Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God. -- Ernest Holmes
My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old. -- Chubby Checker
I go to coffee shops for my outlet. Which is just not healthy at all. -- Jane Lynch
Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing. -- Sebastian Coe
I have to have some kind of creative outlet; otherwise, I'm hell to be around. -- Withered Hand
Everyone needs a creative outlet to express themselves, and the arts in school provides that. -- Amber Riley
Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that. -- Noel Redding
Running provides an outlet for my mind to relax and my peace to be still. -- Tamra Davis
MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart. -- Ambrose Bierce
Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What if the link or key to healing was through finding your unique personal creative outlet? -- Michelle Dennis Evans
I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really. -- Mia Wasikowska
You might be a redneck if every electrical outlet in your house is a fire hazard. -- Jeff Foxworthy
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. -- Ethel Waters
Goods are displayed by thousands of shopkeepers with a sense of beauty that finds no other outlet. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I was drawn to acting because it was the one place that I found an emotional outlet. -- Alley Mills
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. -- Sun Tzu
Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be. -- Grimes
But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates. -- N. K. Jemisin
The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism. -- David Brock
Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet. -- Billy Joel
Since the inception of Gym Class in 1997, every member has had another musical outlet, if not three or four. -- Travie McCoy
I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration. -- Emmitt Smith
I think the industry can probably self-correct without regulation, but I don't believe an individual outlet can regulate itself. -- Ray Dalio
Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium. -- S. S. Van Dine
I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me. -- Steven Spielberg
Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up. -- Emm Gryner
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media. -- David Sanborn
'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet. -- Miguel
If I was going to do Fall Out Boy, I wanted it to be a real outlet for my writing. -- Joe Trohman
SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet. -- Miguel
The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes. -- Dan Fogelberg
Music will always be a major part of my life, its my outlet, I'm in my element and I'm free. -- Mandisa
A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female. -- Laozi
I'm not a person who can scream and shout so this is my only outlet. It's all done very logically. -- Richey Edwards
But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself. -- Edie Brickell
My view is FOX News is a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party and I don't comment on FOX News. -- Howard Dean
We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves. -- Zoketsu Norman Fischer
When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind. -- Matt Bomer
I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous. -- Jodie Foster
I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy. -- Zachary Quinto
I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet. -- Michael Showalter
It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. -- David Byrne
The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival. -- Craig Brown
Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult. -- Judy Blume
It is incredible to me that my Twitter feed is a source of 'news' for every rock news outlet around the world. -- Sebastian Bach
If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery. -- Laura Marling
If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up. -- Angelina Jolie
I guess, I ended up finding music to pour my curiosity into. It was my creative outlet and therapy at the same time. -- Missy Higgins
[hitrecord.org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet. -- Cher
There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy. -- Jonathan Klein
One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us. -- Brian Michael Bendis
I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it. -- Kid Rock
Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. -- Richard Lerner
I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked. -- Lindsey Vonn
Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape. -- Christina Aguilera
Having a real public outlet is how you imprint something for yourself. It's just a matter of timing. It's like you've marked your territory. -- Lily Tomlin
Our hair can be a fun outlet for self expression. I love wearing cornrows and getting my hair thread-wrapped because it feels ancient and African. -- Goapele
Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful. -- Amy Lee
In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild. -- Bertrand Russell
Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a lot of artists. -- Steven Sebring
You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue. -- Greg Graffin
I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed. -- Tessanne Chin
I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional. -- Jason Shawn Alexander
Often the ideas in the show start out as ideas that make you laugh - outrageous "what if" ideas. I wanted an outlet for doing those. -- Charlie Brooker
You must find a more empowering source of comfort, connection, and control than food. Perhaps a creative outlet, helping others, becoming active in an organization, whatever. -- Tony Robbins
Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know I will live forever. -- Michael Jackson
I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint. -- Chris Mars
An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force. -- Sri Aurobindo
The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture. -- Camille Paglia
Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . . -- Amy Johnson
A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,Which finds no natural outlet or relief,In word, or sigh, or tear. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport." -- Sinclair Lewis
Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write parts for yourself. -- Zoe Lister-Jones
I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance. -- Fred Astaire
It's crazy to see people having tattooed my lyrics on their body, and quite frankly writing is just an outlet for my voice and getting it out there. -- Debby Ryan
I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it. -- Ian MacKaye

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