#them

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. ↗

— Woody Allen

#comedy #confronts #dessert #drama #just

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen. ↗

— Woody Allen

#cook #dinners #frozen #i #suck

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#coming #death #end #freedom #haunt

I'm proud that my clients are working to support themselves and those who depend on them. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#depend #i #proud #support #them

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#cardboard #create #exciting #exists #i

Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#am #any #because #confront #directly

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. ↗

— William Ames

#absolutely #any #assent #church #even

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#between #breath #choice #dream #first

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done. ↗

— Tori Amos

#divine #done #follows #greatest #how

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. ↗

— Tori Amos

#analyze #begin #bleeding #cleansing #crawl