My Feeling Is That Poetry Is Also A Healing Process, And Then When A Person Tries To Write Poetry With Depth Or Beauty, He Will Find Himself Guided Along Paths Which Will Heal Him, And This Is More Important, Actually, Than Any Of The Poetry He Writes.
My Personal Feeling Is That Audiences Are Crying Out For Stories They Can Invest In And Feel. I See A Lot Of Big Movies That Leave Me Feeling Rather Numb.
My Experience Of Singing, As An Actor, Was That There's A Different Creative Feeling Of Freedom. The Acting Thing Is A Bit More Defined And Cerebral. I Can See Why People Would Want To Cross Over. If You Have So Much Freedom On Stage Then Perhaps You Want To Be Confined A Bit, And Vice Versa.
I Won't Say He [shakespeare] 'invented' Us, Because Journalists Perpetually Misunderstand Me On That. I'll Put It More Simply: He Contains Us. Our Ways Of Thinking And Feeling-about Ourselves, Those We Love, Those We Hate, Those We Realize Are Hopelessly 'other' To Us-are More Shaped By Shakespeare Than They Are By The Experience Of Our Own Lives.
We Witness A Strange Inversion: On The One Hand, The Endeavor To Turn The Social Contract Into A Less Calculating And More Feeling Connection Among Its Members; On The Other Hand, The Endeavor To Turn The Erotic Relationship Into A Contractual One.
The Only Person That I'm Really Feeling - Because She Has An Identity Of Her Own, Even Though She Has Listened To Mary J. Blige - Is Jill Scott.
When Someone Comes Up To Me And Says, 'mary, You Helped Save My Marriage', Or, 'mary, You Helped Me Get Out Of This Abusive Relationship', I'm In It, Really In Their Lives. And I'm So Passionate About My Feelings, But Also About Showing People The Way Through Theirs.
We See That Every External Motion, Act, Gesture, Whether Voluntary Or Mechanical, Organic Or Mental, Is Produced And Preceded By Internal Feeling Or Emotion, Will Or Volition, And Thought Or Mind.
Would You Like To Hear A Nice Definition Of Jealousy? It's The Feeling That You Get When Someone You Absolutely Detest Is Having A Wonderful Time Without You.
I Love Those Moments On Stage, On Screen And In Life When You Dispense With Language, When You Sort Of Transcend It In A Way, And Certainly The Experience Of Falling In Love, I Think, Defies Words, Which Is Why Poets, Painters, Musicians, Actors Have Tried To Describe That Feeling, Writers Have Just Tried To Put Words To That.
