Steve Kazee

For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

American Actor

Sharon Van Etten

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.

American Musician

Amanda Shires

The violin has always been important for me. My mom was a single mom and we moved around a lot, and so the violin was always the one constant I had. I always feel better when I had my violin. Playing it is cathartic.

Jessie Buckley

It's easy to sort of put a sheen across humanity if you're making a film for people who want to escape their own problems. But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.

Irish Musician

Tig Notaro

I don't want to take myself too seriously, thinking that I'm always having to be this cathartic, intense and deep person, because I certainly enjoy silliness.

American Comedian

Eamonn Walker

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

English Actor

Nancy A. Collins

Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.

American Writer

Sarah McLachlan

Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.

Canadian Musician

Mae Martin

Talking about darker stuff from my life was definitely very cathartic and at times confronting.

Canadian Comedian

Nic Pizzolatto

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

American Novelist

Use 'cathartic' to describe activities or experiences that help you emotionally let go of pent-up feelings.

Emotional Release

'Cathartic' often implies that the action or experience has a beneficial effect on your well-being.

Positive Outcome

The word 'cathartic' is typically used when referring to strong emotions, not mild or insignificant feelings.

Intense Emotions

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Temporary Use

 uprisings in what happened in Egypt was particularly cathartic for me what happened there was a political coalition gathered together for a political goal and that was to remove the leader we need to move one step beyond that now we need to see how we can help those societies move from political coalition's loosely based political

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 of vulnerability, shame, upset and injustice that I was ridden with in that moment and for the weeks to come. But wanting to find a way to condense these feelings into something ordered that I could work through, I decided to do what felt most natural to I wrote about it. It started out as a cathartic exercise.

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 "This isn't social justice. It's a cathartic alternative." For the past three years, I've been going around the world meeting people like Justine Sacco -- and believe me, there's a lot of people like Justine Sacco. There's more every day. And we want to think they're fine, but they're not fine.

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 was particularly cathartic for me. What happened there was a political coalition gathered together for a political goal, and that was to remove the leader. We need to move one step beyond that now. We need to see how we can help those societies move from political coalitions,

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 and if anyone else here wants to come and speak to me, I'm here to talk to you." It's very empowering and cathartic to do that. We need a whole-of-community approach. We give the tradies bags of information from local and national support services.

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 And it's cathartic to laugh at them. But I can tell you that it really does not feel good to receive them. At first, I would screenshot their comments and make fun of their typos, but this soon felt elitist and ultimately unhelpful.

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 the sense that you can change the world and that you can attain what you set out to do. Well, meeting Bandura was really cathartic for me, because I realized that this famous scientist had documented and scientifically validated

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 her screaming is both cathartic and symbolic as she fights to expel the hurt and torment she has suffered throughout her adult life let her go if you return no more than an hour into her exorcism

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 audience connect there's an old phrase that an old clown once told me is that a clown falls down so we don't have to and that's the role that they play and people laugh as a as a cathartic relief

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 and pushed deep down where it lingers and rots. But I think in listening to these songs -- really listening -- can allow us to refeel these hard emotions, but in a cathartic and healing way.