#pathetic

The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#background #being #black #blacks #common

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding? ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#dangerous #more #sympathetic #than #understanding

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#despicable #devotes #hours #i #know

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. ↗

— George P. Baker

#develops #drama #play #requires #self

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. ↗

— Helen Keller

#pathetic #person #sight #someone #vision

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#actually #assume #audience #because #become

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#between #brutal #decadence #difference #our

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth. ↗

— George Saunders

#developing #earth #here #only #our

I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#actress #entirely #gets #grew #her

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity. ↗

— Tilda Swinton

#extreme #get #i #intense #kind