#tortured

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters. ↗

— Halle Berry

#i #know #respond #tortured #well

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#bmw #family #get #gratification #i

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#any #anybody #because #been #day

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#eccentric #either #must #nothing #poet

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#becoming #been #being #fear #fundamentalism

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#am #away #children #horribly #i

So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#completely #countries #course #how #innocent

As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life. Kind of like a Larry David-type thing. ↗

— Andy Milonakis

#hates #his #i #i think #kind

I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV. ↗

— Andy Milonakis

#going #i #instead #interested #just

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#firmly #good #good music #i #music