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• Songwriting can be cathartic, but then you just keep it private. If you're going to play out and have other people listen to you, then you need to make sure there's some point to what you're saying.

  Patterson Hood

  Writing, Play, People

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• 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

  Mistake, Lying, Kids

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• A good rant is cathartic. Ranting is what keeps me sane.
  They always come from a different place. Take the prime minister, for example. Sometimes when I rant about him, I am angry; other times, I am just severely annoyed-it's an important distinction.

  Rick Mercer

  Annoyed, Important, Example

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• I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually been some studies about that, that it's cathartic. If you go to QuakeCon and you walk by and you see the people there [and compare that to] a random cross section of a college campus, you're probably going to find a more peaceful crowd of people at the gaming convention. I think it’s at worst neutral and potentially positive.

  John Carmack

  College, Thinking, Games

  "Violent Games Reduce Aggression, Says Id Boss". IndustryGamers Interview, www.digitalspy.com. July 31, 2011.

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• It's important to me that the words that I put out there into the cosmos, into the universe, be empowering or somehow positive for people that hear them, or maybe be cathartic if someone is having a relationship that's having a tough time.

  Gloria Estefan

  People, Tough Times, Empowering

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2011.

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• 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

  Beautiful, Past, Heartache

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and throwing it down on paper is unbelievably cathartic.

  Gary Dell'Abate

  Book, Writing, Paper

  "The other side of Baba Booey, revealed in new book". Interview with Alicia Rancilio, www.victoriaadvocate.com. November 17, 2010.

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• 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

  Nice, Play, People

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• The Life Cube Burn is cathartic, fun, exciting, and even reverent. It's a spectacular opportunity to put a sense of finality to the event. And when those thousands of written "wish-sticks" inserted into the Cube from all kinds of people combine with the art and shared messaging from the write boards in a blaze of flame and a column of smoke and ashes, it becomes a communal and very spiritual moment.

  Scott Cohen

  Spiritual, Art, Fun

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• You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in the painting and then that became a practice of mine. Sometimes it was a cathartic situation, a way to meditate.

  Jose Parla

  Memories, Eye, Practice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Growth, Doe, World

  BookBrowse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• 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

  Darkness, Add, Fiction

  "Exclusive Interview With Cassandra Clare!". www.thefandom.net.

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• 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

  School, Midnight, Fifteen

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• 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

  People, Giving, Judging

  Source: collider.com

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• Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Hate, Hands

  "Revolt in 2100". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1953.

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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

  Emotional, Trying, Sentimental

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• My head translates emotions into song. Songwriting is cathartic for me.

  Antoniette Costa

  Song, Emotion, Translate

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• At the age of 50, I did "Celebrity Fit Club" and I had to get on a scale and be weighed in front of everyone. I felt like I was naked and for the first time, there was nowhere to hide. I felt like I could finally be myself. It was really cathartic, and I realized I could share my mistakes. I could tell my story and not be ashamed, and show others with these same problems that they aren't alone.

  Maureen McCormick

  Mistake, Age, Stories

  "Maureen McCormick: 'I hit rock bottom'". Interview with Al Roker, www.today.com. October 14, 2008.

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• It seemed inevitable to try to address my feelings about everything that had happened. To a certain degree, it felt cathartic, but it's less cathartic to me than it is illuminating and helping me navigate my own feelings.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Feelings, Trying, Degrees

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I feel that the power that storytelling has to change people, to bring them together, to have that cathartic sort of experience, is something that definitely has helped my life be worthwhile and better.

  Karla Souza

  People, Together, Life Is

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

  Mark Hoppus

  Writing, Mean, Who I Am

  "A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 8, 2010.

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• For me as an actor, I find it's most creative when I'm bringing myself into the role rather than putting the role on. I feel like it's more of a cathartic experience.

  Finn Jones

  Creative, Roles, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We don't have a particular plan. We just do what we do. This is the only way we know how to do it. We make the music that moves us. We use it as therapy. The songs are cathartic. They're ways of dealing with life experiences and the world around you. It's meant to be as a release for us as it is for other people.

  David Draiman

  Song, Moving, People

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• ... 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

  Sex, Laughter, Real

  Patricia Gaffney (2009). “The Saving Graces: A Novel”, p.218, Harper Collins

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• Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. I think there's something cathartic about having kids live through their fears through a book or any kind of story.

  Jane Levy

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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