#ape

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal! ↗

— Robert Creeley

#am #brutal #editorial #else #i

I don't think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented itself. It makes me a bit uncomfortable, but at least she never sold the story before trial to the tabloids. ↗

— Catherine Crier

#before #bit #certainly #i #itself

The many sounds of Memphis shaped my early musical career and continue to be an inspiration to this day. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#continue #day #early #inspiration #many

I was amazed, shocked, and sickened by what I heard throughout the day, over and over, by many victims' stories. I can think of no one with whom I didn't recognize a common thread. These monsters, these evil priests, used the same words and methods on all of us. With each session, I would find something that sent a cold chill down my spine. It amazed and frightened me that the actual words used on me, to rape me, to rape me, were the same as the words used on so many others from all over the United States. You would think that all these priests either were educated in how to concur and rape us, or they met privately with each other to compare notes and develop their plan of attack on us. The pattern was so much the same, with the same words, that you would swear it was scripted and disbursed to these priests. Do they secretly have closed-door meetings on how to abuse us? A chilling thought. Neary's routine of saying the “Our Father” during the rape and making me say it with him, repeating the “thy will be done” over and over, the absolution given me after he “finished,” the threats of having God take my parents away, the lectures about offering my suffering up to God, etc., etc., etc. My experience was identical, word-for-word, to that of many others. The exact words during the abuse were not just close, but exactly the same, as if it were some kind of abuse ritual. Ritual abuse is not limited to the religious definition and can include compulsive, abusive behavior performed in an exact series of steps with little variation. How could these similarities occur without the priests taking the same “abuse seminar” together some place, somehow? Was it taught in the seminary? In some dark corner? It goes beyond coincidence—the similarities in deeds and verbiage that these predators use on us. It truly chilled me to the very marrow of my bones. ↗

— Charles L. Bailey Jr.

#catholic #church #clergy-abuse #cover-up #coverup

Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing. ↗

— John Crowley

#characters #difficult #does #editing #film

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#drive #especially #every #grim #i

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#best #down #feel #i #i feel

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper! ↗

— George William Curtis

#good #how #imagination #many #much

Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#becomes #buildings #city #crowded #different

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them. ↗

— Tom Daley

#apart #i #look #newspapers #pictures