#on

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls. ↗

— John Hersey

#blast #body #broke #burns #caused

I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing. ↗

— Lesley Nicol

#done #i #mean #musicals #thing

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima. ↗

— John Hersey

#bomb #deterrence #fear #happened #hiroshima

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#considered #female #grew #i #me

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#correspondent #known #nuisance #service

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#band #band members #based #bus #chosen

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#ask #band #band leader #bar #else

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#allowed #men #people #songs #women

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#break #constructs #coverage #distorted #extensive

The songs become the show, which is how it should be. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#how #should #show #songs #which