"I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented."

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Source : "Julie Brown: Being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. October 20, 2010.

Downtown Julie Brown

#Thinking Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #Faces Quotes

“During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was a chance that it could save them, or others, from the eternal torments of hell. Thus, in the name of the religion of love, hundreds of thousands of people were not merely killed but atrociously tortured in ways that made the gas chambers of Beslen seem humane.”
“To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job.”
“We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as God's chosen people is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism.”
“The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.”
“I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.”
“It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.”
“I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion.”

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