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It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer.
Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.
There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.
Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.
I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.
Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.
Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.
The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.
Stand-up is a very scary, very solitary profession, but you have to experience it to figure out if it's right for you.
The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.
Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
It's never one solitary event that has changed my life. It's a bunch of little pieces that built and built up to where I am now.
I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there.
There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
For me, Africa is a land of light and contrast. Black and white is the best way to express the solitary emotion and vitality of wildlife.
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement.
Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and if you look good.
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes.
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Peter Sellers was a solitary character, always preferring to hide behind a mask, and consequently, you never really got to know the real Sellers.
Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
It's taken me a long time to work out what people are thinking and what they're expecting. I am naturally solitary, and I'm comfortable with that.
My two bits here are that writing is a solitary job but there are times when one needs to discuss the work, and see what's working and what's not.
I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.
Solitary decisions, no matter how well-founded they may appear to individuals, must belong to the past - along with national, unilateralist action.
I love writing books, but it's a solitary experience. When I'm on a film set, I'm with a bunch of other artists working together to make one thing.
When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.
Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s there, he’s not really there.
It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.