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There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
Nathan Fillion
Life
Comedy
Castle
Go
Tragedy
Even
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
Nathaniel Philbrick
Time
Needs
Man
Natural
Matter
Random
Natural Disasters
Attach
Through
Disasters
How
Inexplicable
Tragedy
Man Needs
Meaning
Event
One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.
Nicholas Kristof
Death
Statistic
Deaths
Tragedy
Million
The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.
Paul Di Filippo
Comedy
Think
Easily
Constituents
Variable
More
Felt
Tragedy
Person
May
Acknowledged
Elements
Deeply
Widely
Universally
Geoffrey Tozer's death is a national tragedy. For the Australian arts and Australian music, losing Tozer is like Canada having lost Glenn Gould, or France, Ginette Neveu. It is a massive cultural loss. The kind of loss people felt when Germany lost Dresden.
Paul Keating
Death
Music
People
Losing
National
Lost
France
Kind
Having
Glenn
Like
Massive
Felt
Geoffrey
Loss
Cultural
Tragedy
Australian
Germany
Canada
Arts
Benghazi was a tragedy. Libya is a tragedy.
Paul Manafort
Benghazi
Libya
Tragedy
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Paul Sweeney
Happiness
Good
Country
Living
Our
More
Fail
How
Tragedy
Than
Lack
Often
Where
Realize
Fortune
Good Fortune
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
Paul Watson
Money
Destroy
More
Ecology
Tragedy
Than
Much
Incentive
Preserve
I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.
Paula Hawkins
Better
Comedy
Tragedy
Than
Realized
I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it?
Paula Hawkins
Happiness
Writing
Side
Easier
Find
Darker
Lot
Tragedy
Than
Just
Psychologically
Less
Compelling
The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That's very Spanish, the way in which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other.
Pedro Almodovar
Work
Me
Problem
Comedy
Impossible
Single
Other
Aim
Way
More
Genre
Because
Mixed
Tragedy
Very
Than
Which
Spanish
Each
My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.
Peter Krause
Me
Tired
Tragedy
Bones
I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.
Pierre Salinger
Happiness
More
Had
Share
Least
Tragedy
Than
Far
Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious.
Piet Mondrian
Life
Art
Theatre
Dance
Will
Become
Harmonious
Harmony
Disappear
Along
Tragedy
Itself
Dominating
Movement
Etc
Expression
Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.
Rachel Cusk
Me
Comedy
Try
Somewhere
Finest
Fond
Part
Hysteria
Between
Female
Always
Line
Subject
Tragedy
Very
Bring
It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
Rahul Gandhi
Wisdom
You
Matter
Nothing
India
How
How Much
Tragedy
Much
Position
In high drama or high tragedy or anything, it's not really human unless there's some humor at the same time. And vice versa. So I guess I tend to gravitate towards projects which tread a dodgy tightrope between two things, which aren't really one or another.
Rebecca Hall
Time
Humor
Vice Versa
Drama
Guess
Unless
Projects
High
Some
Tend
Towards
Between
Another
Tightrope
Versa
Tragedy
Same
Human
Same Time
Vice
Anything
Which
Really
Tread
Gravitate
Things
Two
Billy Martin was a human tragedy, in the real sense of the words.
Reggie Jackson
Words
Sense
Martin
Real
Tragedy
Human
Real Sense
Billy
Good comedy films, if you listen to the score, the music is not trying to be funny. It's always, in a way, underscoring the tragedy and struggle of the main character.
Rich Moore
Funny
Music
Good
Character
You
Struggle
Comedy
Films
Way
Main
Main Character
Always
Score
Tragedy
Trying
Listen
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.
Richard Flanagan
Astonished
Out
Ecological
Island
Tragedy
Ireland
Forests
Being
Size
Europeans
Whose
Incomprehensible
Played
September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point. It did not herald a new era of international relations in which terrorists with a global agenda prevailed or in which such spectacular terrorist attacks became commonplace.
Richard N. Haass
September
International Relations
Relations
Prevailed
Point
Attacks
New
Global
Terrible
New Era
Became
Terrorist
Terrorists
Era
Tragedy
Historical
Did
Any
Which
Commonplace
Agenda
Turning
Turning Point
Measure
International
Spectacular
As the crisis in Syria grows and the humanitarian tragedy becomes more clear, I appreciated Prime Minister Netanyahu's perspective on the changes and volatility in the region.
Rob Portman
Perspective
Changes
Syria
Crisis
Minister
Netanyahu
More
Volatility
Clear
Prime
Prime Minister
Becomes
Tragedy
Region
Grows
Humanitarian
Appreciated
The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.
Robert Shea
Strength
Key
Heroes
Heroines
Destroyed
Greatest
Greatest Strength
Tragedy
Which
Appears
Element
I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.
Roberto Benigni
You
Comedy
Matter
Beauty
Poetry
Reach
Crux
Tragedy
Same
Storyteller
What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all.
Rodman Philbrick
Me
Circumstances
About
Given
Most
Terrible
How
Surprised
Tragedy
Survived
Anyone
I was mad until I was about 25. Completely out of control with my emotions. Everything that happened to me was a tragedy. I've been much happier over 25.
Romola Garai
Me
Emotions
Control
Everything
Mad
Out
About
Over
Until
Been
Tragedy
Happened
Happier
Much
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