In the country of pain we are each alone.
May Sarton
Recitation: by Male by Female
There is some brilliant pop music and some very poor classical music. And why shouldn't comedy be treated as seriously as drama?
Melvyn Bragg
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Every Comic-Con, they have some sort of 'Dr. Horrible' panel. It's very cool!
Maurissa Tancharoen
CoolHorribleSomeEveryVerySort
Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
Johnny Bench
EasyBedHardOutSoftGet
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
Tony Blair
PurposeConsequencesTerrorismOut
Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.
Tom Hodgkinson
WindowStandRememberYouLookBend
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?
Rose George
HistoryCultureTrainingChildRules
Attention. That's all girls want.
Diplo
AttentionWant
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
Donald Johanson
MarriageThoughtBiologyLateChoice
If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.
Chiang Kai-shek
CountryImperialismWillNationThen
Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.
Chuck Close
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My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, but if my parents had a family friend over, I would just go hide in the bedroom.
Brie Larson
FamilyFriendDanceParentsMeSong
Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.
Alice McDermott
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