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(Richard Hawley occupies a special place not only in the history of pop music, but also in the history of Home Entertainment. Hawley`s album Coles Corner, an existential ode to the city of Sheffield that is sung with a crooner`s sense of melody and romantic melancholy, stands out as one of the great records of recent years. And he is the first person in five years to cook the Home Entertainment team a square meal.) You couldn`t come to Sheffield and not try a bit of Henderson`s Relish, ... That`s not right, is it?

- Jennifer Ehle

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe.

- Julia Louis-Dreyfus

On death: I always tried not to touch that subject, because it would really give me existential anxiety. Death is not only related to the physical death of the body, it`s also related to the death of relationships or feelings. Every day, I feel a little bit older, a little less alive, more alive with the possibility of being less alive, closer to death.

- Shakira
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About wife Chiara: "She is my existential lighthouse. Sentimental serenity, for me, is very important: as an actor, I have to move the audience and so I have to feel good about myself and my life. It`s thanks to Chiara that I do well my job. (...) What the best about our relationship is syntony we have: Chiara and I understand each other immediately, we talk about everything, we confide with each other about everything. when they offered me to go to the US, I accepted it only because she did agree with my choice. She knew how much it would have been hard for us to leave Italy, but she wanted to give me support. (...) My wife and I are bound by a common view of existence, starting with the concept of family, that`s sacred for us and that we defend with all our strength."

- Raoul Bova

I have an existential map. It has `You are here` written all over it.

- Steven Wright

(Richard Hawley occupies a special place not only in the history of pop music, but also in the history of Home Entertainment. Hawley`s album Coles Corner, an existential ode to the city of Sheffield that is sung with a crooner`s sense of melody and romantic melancholy, stands out as one of the great records of recent years. And he is the first person in five years to cook the Home Entertainment team a square meal.) You couldn`t come to Sheffield and not try a bit of Henderson`s Relish, ... That`s not right, is it?

- Richard Hawley

I have an existential map; it has `you are here` written all over it

- Stephen Wright

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it`s very limited in what it can do logically. It`s an existential experience - there and then gone.

- Bill Moyers

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you`re not in that existential panic when you don`t have a novel at all.

- Rose Tremain

No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.

- Andrea Dworkin

`The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.` This caption from Carlos Castaneda is written across the bottom of a painting of a nude man, who balances precariously on an overhead beam. The caption could serve as the motto of much of Woody`s work, both his figures and his landscapes. If his panoramic landscapes sweep away to a distant horizon and leave you with a heart-stopping sense of your own solitude, his nude figures expose the raw existential isolation at the very core of the human condition.

- William Peterson

I`m more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It`s not a retail experience. It`s an existential one.

- Thomas Lynch