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New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. Daniel Hannan

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I was at the premiere of 'Prisoners,' and I heard two thousand people scream at the same time. I turned to my wife and said, 'I love cinema!' It's the sharing of emotions together, and it's collective. It's one of the last communions we have. Denis Villeneuve

I made 'Enemy' to prep myself for 'Prisoners.' I had the need to direct something smaller in English before going to Hollywood. That's the way I sold it to Warner because they asked me if I was berserk to make a movie right before. Denis Villeneuve

Myself Me Enemy Made Before Sold Way Berserk Direct Something Had Smaller Make Because Prisoners Going Movie Hollywood Asked Warner English Prep Right Need

I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to understand that Loki's character's past was not first class. He was not the first in his class. Denis Villeneuve

Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions. Dilma Rousseff

Commitment Political Prisoner Own Situation Those Fact Because Opinion Opinions Due Prisoners Were Historical Just Experienced Just Because Public Personally Public Opinion Views Expressed

Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies. Dominic Raab

Rights Inflation Unforeseen Human Rights Prisoners Expansion Human Disproportionately

Ingenious prisoners have successfully claimed a range of novel entitlements, from fertility treatment to a right to keep twigs in their cells to wave as wands in pagan rituals. Dominic Raab

Entitlement Wave Range Claimed Rituals Prisoners Fertility Cells Ingenious Pagan Successfully Novel Keep Twig Right Treatment

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg. Donal Henahan

Great Musicians Better Long Worse Possible Gutenberg Argued Spontaneity Printed Genuine Prisoners Exist Scores Modern Might Really Works Desirable

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born. Donald Kagan

History Accident Born Without Prisoners Were Where

Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair. Dorothea Dix

Government Best Humanity Duty Kind Steady Firm Leads Indulgence Exercise Repair Prisoners Truest May Children Cannot Which Convicts Granted

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience. Ed Markey

Humiliating Other Photographs Degrading Sexual Physical Abuse Prisoners Subjected Iraqi Shock Reports Being Acts Conscience Treatment

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing. Edwin M. Stanton

I understand the importance which the Palestinian society attributes to the issue of prisoners. Ehud Olmert

Society Importance Attributes Understand Prisoners Issue Which Palestinian

County jails used to be just stopovers for inmates headed to state prisons. But as Arkansas' state facilities have reached capacity, jails are increasingly being used to hold prisoners long term. Elizabeth Flock

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I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape. Gore Vidal

War Heroes Unless Know How Prisoners Escape Ever

Law enforcement's biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.' The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans. James Comey

Tough Times Experience Law Soil Black Tough Our Black Americans Had Vehicles Biased Still Prisoners Wagon Irish Times American After Little Enforcement View Use Transport Groups Compares Lives Nickname

I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons. Jim Inhofe

Morning Allah Wake Up Every Guess Say Charge Would Hussein About Saddam Saddam Hussein Talk Prisoners Prisons Wake Up Thanking Treatment

If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals. Jim Inhofe

Those About Individuals Concerned Terrorists Block Prisoners Blood American Hands Cell Them Many Here Treatment

I needed a place to put the dogs. The prisoners ruined the jail, so I put the prisoners in the tents and I had a nice place to put the dogs. We treat the cats nice too, and horses. I have the inmates take care of the animals. It's therapy too, you see. Joe Arpaio

It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe. John Blair

People Phone Lawyer First Important Whatever State Telegram Way Phone Calls Joe Through Allowed Contact Support Like Hours Calls Permitted Prisoners Were Been Italian Getting Apparently

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war. John Yoo

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It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners. John Yoo

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