When I think of Viola Davis, in my mind comes her image as Annalise Keating (the character she play in “How to get away with murder”), taking off her wig and showing herself vulnerable. For me it was a powerful image…
“The Greeks sail, and take my hope with them. I cannot follow. I am tied to this earth where my ashes lie. I curl myself around the stone obelisk of his tomb. ACHILLES, it says, and nothing more. He has gone…
“- My name is Elizabeth Zott, and this is SUPPER AT SIX.” Hands on her hips, her lips outlined in Brick Red, her thick hair pulled back in a simple French twist secured with a number-two pencil, Elizabeth leveled her gaze…
“Erika knew surprisingly little about the Orthodox Church, most of her understanding coming from a single conversation she’d had in the eighties with a Romanian informer who had come to Vienna to discuss the terms of his employment. The professor had…
Even if they were twin sisters and lived together, Rose and Fern had different memories of their childhood. “When we were five, my mother took my sister, Rose, and me to the library every day for a year. <<A better education…
Men’s Minds “And I’m sure women probably wonder <<What are men thinking anyway?>> You really want to know what men are thinking? Because I can tell you what men are thinking. You know what we’re thinking? Nothing. We’re not thinking anything.…
“Both awe and wonder are often experienced in response to nature, art, music, spiritual experiences, or ideas. In the midst of these moments, we can feel overwhelmed by the vastness of something that is almost incomprehensible — it almost feels like…
“Dear Scotty, Your car was my favorite place to be. I don’t know if I ever told you that. It was the only place we could get true solitude. I’d get in your car and it was like feeling all the…
“But hang around any court for a while and you will see just how precarious life can be. How your world can come tumbling down all too rapidly if you make the wrong call. If, just for one, fatal split second,…
WAR “Only a few generations ago, most people in the developed world had either fought in a war or knew someone who had. Now war is something that many of us have never had to experience at all.” …………………………………………………………….. “As citizens,…
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