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I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
The government needs to defend its people, to take necessary actions even if they are extremely painful and tragic.
Losing Jane was tragic and I thought I'd never get married again, or have more children, or would even ever want to.
I like to believe I play tragic heroes - characters that are torn between the good and bad, the black and the white.
The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.
Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.
One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it's the most tragic thing anybody can go through.
When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
I'm not on Twitter because I'm worried I'd be really dull, which would be tragic for someone who's supposed to be funny.
The tragic fact is that with addiction, like many other illnesses, sometimes you can do everything right and people die.
Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
I fundamentally do not believe in the patenting of software. It would be like Shakespeare patenting the tragic love story.
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.
It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic isn't it?
She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.
When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.
There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming.
In my own works I am an obsessionist. Though I write humorous music too, much of it has been obsessed by death and the tragic.
The truth is ships and aircraft have been vanishing with tragic regularity in every part of the world since they were invented.
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.
I'm really bad writing the chase scenes or fighting scenes. I'm much better for writing, like, a more melancholic or tragic music.
The treatment of patients with contaminated blood has been described as one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the NHS.
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read as comic for us.
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.
I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.
Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.
Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.
Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.
For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at it as part of life.
I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.
Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.
People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.
When a person finally has the courage to say, 'This is who I am,' and society is not there to welcome them with open arms, it is so tragic.
With my being from Hawaii and being very family oriented I don't really have a fear of a tragic ending. I dont see any tragic ending for me.
What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It's sweet and sad - and, to me, hilarious.