Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Barbara Deming
Recitation: by Male by Female
The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.
Jenny Holzer
HopeDoingResultAttentionChoose
The way I approach any role, whether it's comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy for the sake of comedy wears dull pretty quickly. You have to ground the character in reality first and allow the audience to sympathize, emphasize and be more invested.
Matt McGorry
CharacterTruthThinkRealityComedy
The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
GirlTimeStreetFirst TimeFirst
Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now.
John W. Snow
GoodBestEnergyThinkShortNow
Equal justice under the law, even if it's your mother. That was a point of admiration in our household. It was drilled into me.
Steve King
MotherJusticeMeLawEqualPoint
Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.
Steven Gaines
HouseNewSheOldTwoModern
I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.
Sid Bernstein
LoveBeautyFlowersGreenLanguage
It has gone past me now, the writing phase.
Rod Stewart
PastMeWritingNowGonePhase
Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.
Joseph Brodsky
StopCitizenWillPoetBeingOnce
China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelt's proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.
Chiang Kai-shek
FaithIndependenceFightingPresident
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
Sylvia Plath
WomanThinkingFeelingAcceptMost
I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.
Penelope Keith
WorkThinkStopRetireBeingJust
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