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When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of escaping my own problems and my own reality. Diana Silvers

Reality Problems Own Way Kind Something My Own Always Been Tragic Escape Escaping Want Happens Acting Twisted

We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming. Diane Sawyer

I stood respectfully as Ronald Reagan was sworn in to his second term though I disagreed with him on many issues. I stood as well for the inauguration of George W. Bush's second term though I thought his war in Iraq was a tragic mistake. Dick Durbin

War Mistake Thought Respectfully Though Term Well Him Reagan Issues George His George W Iraq Tragic Stood Ronald Reagan Bush Inauguration Many Sworn Second Second Term

July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida. Diego Rivera

Life Love Day Wonderful My Life Lost Late Had Part Most Been Frida Tragic July Forever Realized Now Beloved

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. E. M. Forster

Destruction Countryside Genuine Tragic Theme English English Countryside Growth

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth. Ed Asner

Truth Character Comedy Matter Older More Because Exert How Gotten Tragic May Essentials Portraying Need Presenting

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny. Elaine Stritch

Funny You Unless Tragic

More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people. Elijah Cummings

Great People Year Nation Lost Young Our Impact Great Nation More Abuse Sadly Felt Occur Deaths Tragic Effects Than May Young People Across Communities Many Lives Among

For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality! Ellen Key

Life Love Great Power Same Thing Adds Says Has-Been Would Would-Be Thousands Immorality Thousands Of Years Poetry Mysterious Prose Picturing Without Passions Been Years Tragic Same Anyone Plain Poor Then Thing

Even the most tragic moments can have moments of comedy. Emily Meade

Comedy Most Tragic Moments Even

Michael Brown's tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community and its police force. It also developed a need to develop and widely disseminate law enforcement best practices for responding to public demonstrations. Eric Holder

Death Best Law Police Community Disseminate Responding Distrust Some Law Enforcement Brown Develop Developed Between Police Force Also Force Practices Revealed Demonstrations Ferguson Tragic Michael Public Enforcement Deep Widely Need

I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun. Etgar Keret

Life Me Grateful People My Life Year Thief Homework Saved Once Kind Relieved Tried Something More Write Had Written Like Another Felt Got Tragic Than Stolen Happened Acted Pages Laptop Who Fun Novel

Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic. Evan Osnos

Mine Like Years Tragic Being Chinese Epic Coal Novel

While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem. Fatema Mernissi

After the tragic events of Manchester, with the senseless loss of life and the fear that came from knowing my family was unsafe and that I was completely powerless to protect them, I went to a very dark place with no tools to handle the feelings that came along with the devastation of the attack. Frankie Grande

Life Family Events Dark Fear Feelings Tools Dark Place Attack Unsafe Devastation Along Powerless Protect Knowing Came Loss Tragic Very Handle Manchester Senseless After Place Them

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted. Frederick Leboyer

Eyes Closed Eyebrows Brow Tragic Raised

World history is tragic. Friedrich Durrenmatt

History World Tragic World History

Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N. G. Edward Griffin

History Mistake States Joined Most Occurred Tragic United United States

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity. George McGovern

Case Identity Mistaken Campaign Tragic Whole

The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid. Gever Tulley

Today Time News History Events Before Manners Kid Possible Seems More Civilization Fact Pick Calculate Like Terrible Safest Opposite Tragic Up Quick Than Quite The History Of Children In Fact Stories News Media Media Ever

The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think. Greg Kinnear

Character Think Intriguing Always Tragic Element

There are so many great characters because one of the things that makes Batman fantastic is that Batman is tragic. I've said this elsewhere; I've said it over and over again, but the beauty of the character is that he's a Don Quixote. Greg Rucka

Great Character Beauty Elsewhere Batman Characters One Of The Things He Over Because Makes Said Tragic Don Quixote Quixote Again Fantastic Many Things

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