I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don’t have a great ear. It’s like a tragedy – I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.
They want younger girls, not old ones like me, as heroines. This is the tragedy of Bollywood. It is male dominated.
I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
I miss Lisa ‘Left Eye’ every day. Watched her VH1 special many times. A tragedy. But I didn’t see the movie based on her.
Slipknot started out of tragedy.
Trump would have us revise and edit our historical memory of 9/11, turning it from a unifying narrative of heroism, tragedy, and war and recast it to serve the political ends of a man unworthy of the presidency.
‘The White Woman on the Green Bicycle’ is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
Fighting recessions and building public infrastructure, including care, health, and educational infrastructure – this should not be the work of citizens. When it is, let’s acknowledge that’s a tragedy.
The problem is not that the U.S. economy won’t be able to take care of its citizens – it is that taking away benefits, creating intergenerational warfare, and scapegoating will make for very difficult and bad politics. This is a tragedy that we can see coming. Early action would be relatively painless.
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.
As I wrote about my childhood, I realized that there was no big tragedy. Being multiethnic is not a tragedy. I didn’t have any big life-threatening illnesses, no tumors, no kidney malfunctions… I came from a very poor family. I was chubby as a kid.
I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn’t it?
A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.
Untangling Christmas lights is the true tragedy of ‘Stranger Things.’
Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with ‘Titanic.’
I’ve been very fortunate. I’ve been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce – I’ve been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.
Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch ’21 Grams.’ I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it’s been with me forever.
The Swedish winters and summers hold the most enduring memories for me. Now, when I am back in Stockholm in November, it is difficult to imagine being able to ski to school. I think that is a tragedy.
That’s the tragedy of our country. Everyone is an inexperienced politician.
I think if you understand your role, comedy won’t create any tragedy.
Every time New York City suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help. And he did it anonymously.
When I learned about this tragedy that’s happening in Midway – you know, these birds whose stomachs are filled with handfuls of our waste – I just felt drawn there magnetically.
I had no idea there was such a thin line between sanity and insanity. I got pushed right to the edge by tragedy in my life, and I couldn’t stand up; I couldn’t recover.
Most of us now have opinions on such things as road tolling, the U.S. position on climate change, and the correct colour of a newsreader’s tie on the occasion of a state tragedy, which are way beyond the arena of things we have any control over.
No, no, I didn’t know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.
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.
People think it’s a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer’s. But in my mother’s case, it’s different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she’s happy.
Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.
I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist’s shoes.
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I’ve only had tragic haircuts and outfits.
In this part of the world, due to our historical experiences with the Soviet Union and later with Russia, we are used to a situation where Moscow tends to put the blame on the people whenever a tragedy occurs, rather than on the authorities.
I consider tragedy the highest form of art.
Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They’re based on the central figure, and things happen to that person, and they’re called tragedy because they’re extremely sad. But tragedy always has a glorious thing happen at the end of it. That’s what the catharsis is.
City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.
What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all.
Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
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.
On September 11, 2001, America suffered an unimaginable tragedy and witnessed the incredible heroism of hundreds of first responders who rushed into the World Trade Center to save lives.
It’s such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
I often wonder if I should adopt a cause to call my own or start tweeting inspirational messages. And when tragedy strikes and the world takes to social media, is it now my responsibility to respond with #RIPs and #prayfors?
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I’ve been terribly lucky.
I’m happy that I worked alone on ‘Tragedy,’ but it’s obvious that I was trying to create something much bigger than I could do on my own.
Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.
No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
A lot of queer stories revolve around tragedy.
Sometimes I am asked if I know ‘the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don’t even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
North Korean defectors who speak out against the regime always feel nervous. We never know what the North Korean government is planning. It’s really difficult for us to show our faces and speak out, but we feel obligated to do something to inform people about the ongoing tragedy inside North Korea.
When you count on someone you want him to be there in times of need. I may not be there when you are popping champagne bottles but I will be there, like a solid rock, if there is a tragedy.
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.
For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.
