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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.

I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'K-9,' and 'Curly Sue' and of course, 'According to Jim.' I think that my comedies have been the most popular.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater.

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV show is over, I'll be back in Chicago, doing live theater.

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next.

I don't live with people, that's why my relationships last. I'm not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say, - no, it's not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you'.

I think I have the best house in the world. I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

I'm from Louisiana and live in Texas now.

That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price.