Beatrice Sparks Quotes
It’s a terrible thing but it seems like tragedy brings people together, makes them more supportive, more dependent.
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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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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.
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The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.
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I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.
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There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
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Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
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What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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The tragedy unfolding in Zimbabwe is driven by one man's ruthless campaign to hang on to power whatever the cost to others in the process.
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No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. There is stuff that is blown up on the Internet that isn't hugely successful with the entire world, and vice versa. I don't put a tremendous amount of stock in it, but at the same time, you always want people to like what you're doing. Certainly, to have come from an Internet background, we want to stay faithful and have people be supportive and happy with what we're doing.
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The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.
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Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
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The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
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My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.
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Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
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It’s a terrible thing but it seems like tragedy brings people together, makes them more supportive, more dependent.
