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I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.
To be honest, I have a lot of mental demons in life and wrestling has definitely helped me out with that.
I did a lot of struggling with my identity trying to figure out who the heck I was. I had to face my demons.
We all carry extreme heartache and demons. Instead of pretending like we don't, I like to be honest and real.
Carter Hall is a cross between Indiana Jones and Robert Langdon from 'Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels and Demons.'
I'd seen Titus Welliver in a few shows and felt he had some inner demons in his portrayals, as does Harry Bosch.
I love the virtuosity and imaginative chutzpah of 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and not just because my boyfriend is in it!
Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.
The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.
People can change, learn, and grow, and it's better to face your demons instead of perpetually running away from them.
There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
I've been obsessed with demons since reading 'The Elfstones of Shannara' and 'Master of the Five Magics' by Lyndon Hardy.
Demons, chaos, dragons - all of them are different incarnations and representations of our idea of death in 'Dark Souls.'
My mother had people lay hands on me to cast demons out of me when I was 8. Then two or three times when I was in college.
Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.
I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'
Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.
We try so hard to block out negative or dark thoughts, but sometimes embracing your demons is the most vitalizing thing you can do.
Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.
On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.
I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.
I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.
As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.
Writing about my life was a 13-year process where I had to face my demons as I wrote and take the time to understand them, then defeat them.
I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.
Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.
During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.
For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.
Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.
The subject of angels and demons really grabbed me. There is a huge mass of information, and the Bible is one of the most amazing reference points.
You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.
To me, a song like 'Demons' or the title 'Trouble Will Find Me' are acknowledgments that you can't really plan for life, and you can't plan for trouble.
I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried, but I just can't seem to find a melody.
I think we all have our demons and our various shortcomings, and it would be nice if people felt more gently about other people, but also about themselves.
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.
I do think that when you get older, you kind of learn not to judge because you realise that no one's perfect, and we're all fighting our own private demons.
Instead of yelling and screaming or losing myself all the time, I release everything in my music, and that's kind of how I expel my demons, as you would say.
I think we all have demons, but my demons aren't that bad. They're productive demons. They keep me focused on the man I want to be and the life I want to live.
Each one of my movies is going to be about one of these different social demons. The first one, being 'Get Out,' is about race and neglect and marginalization.
I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him.
It was a combination of typecasting and my own demons. There are roles I could have gotten, but there were just lots of opportunities that I just blew on my own.
In my experience, most players act the way they do in their own self-interest, in getting their emotions out and basically working with their own demons on court.
What I really like to do is write 'genre' stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and I'll do the same with 'Man of Steel.'
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.