#persona

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#acting #comedy #express #feelings #fit

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#already #because #before #bobby #fischer

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#am #government #i #i am #much

Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#city #experience #giant #going #i

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#become #being #democracy #equal #essence

I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess. ↗

— Ed O'Neill

#i think #kind #may #mess #off

I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else. ↗

— Paul O'Neill

#back #could #critical #else #i

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#danger #endowed #generally #i #lies

I have a very eclectic iPod. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song 'Tightrope,' that's a good cardio song. And then I've got Sting. I've got Mary J. Blige. I've got The Beatles. I've got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#beatles #beyonce #blige #cardio #eclectic

And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends. ↗

— Billy Ocean

#audience #cannot #doctor #doing #feeling