Emilie Loring Quotes
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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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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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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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One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
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People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'
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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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I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
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Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.
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Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.
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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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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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I'm just an instant flirt with most people. I'm very cheeky.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.
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Tragedy is chic but discontent is dowdy.
