Miranda Hart

I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift.

English Actress

Kim Elizabeth

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

American Writer

Katie Aselton

It's really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don't have as much responsibility when you're acting, but you have more fun. But then you miss having that responsibility, and so you go back and torture yourself and make a movie.

American Director

Giles Deacon

I don't believe in a recipe for success. You have to work hard; you may not always get it right - you have to bounce back from situations, and you have to be really focused and determined. It's important to have fun as well. Work shouldn't be a torture.

British Designer

Vivienne Westwood

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

English Designer

Luther Burbank

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

American Environmentalist

Mike White

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

Writer

Victoria Abril

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

Spanish Actress

Halle Berry

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

American Actress

Ruben Blades

Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream.

Panamanian Musician

Torture often aims to force information from someone or to punish.

Physical Coercion

Emphasizes the intensity, going beyond normal pain or discomfort.

Extreme Severity

Torture is always seen negatively and is a violation of human rights.

Negative Connotation

Used to describe an experience that is extremely upsetting or difficult.

Emotional Struggle

Sometimes used to exaggerate discomfort for dramatic effect.

Hyperbolic Expression

Involves overpowering someone to inflict pain or suffering.

Physical Domination

Sometimes misconceived as an effective way to get true confessions.

Interrogation Tool

Indicates intense internal conflict or pain one inflicts on oneself.

Personal Suffering

Torture can describe an emotional state without physical pain.

Metaphorical Use

 scientists who probably can they certainly can yeah because they were looking for by the biofluorescence in flying squirrels in the chicago museum using dead specimens collected some of them hundreds of years before they've got a little torture now shining around and of course the squirrels they are glowing in the dark it's like pink

This Platypus Can Glow...

 from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram. But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances, most can be fooled with enough preparation,

The language of lying —...

 While religious authorities encouraged witch hunts, local secular governments usually carried out the detainment and punishment of accused witches. Those suspected of witchcraft were questioned and often tortured— and under torture, thousands of innocent people confessed to witchcraft

Ugly History: Witch...

 of these countries have all passed laws that say you have a right to a lawyer and you're right not to be tortured and what I recognized was that there was an incredible window of opportunity for us as a world community to come together and end torture as an investigative tool

How to stop torture -...

 the principle of nondiscrimination and the right to life and liberty. It refers to negative freedoms, like the freedom from torture or slavery, as well as positive freedoms, such as the freedom of movement and residence. It encompasses basic civil and political rights,

What are the universal...

 very ugly explosive and violent way unable to control his anger and his rage my father tore through our home daily yelling screaming and hitting his inner struggle to provide and protect for his family tortured him my parents grew up

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 And what I recognized was that there was an incredible window of opportunity for us as a world community to come together and end torture as an investigative tool. We often think of torture as being political torture or reserved for

Karen Tse: How to stop...

 know what to do I wouldn't give him any names and they threatened me with tortures oddly enough one of the english-speaking guard said just give them some names so I did I made up some names and they went away

Hostage Situation PIPE...

 sometimes too much. She knew just how to torture me without knowing. And this girl spent a lot of time in the morning to put on makeup, like you can see in any young girl's life.

What I learned as a...

 thrift stores, attics -- you know. But whenever I said those dreadful words, "Take out a book and read," you'd think I'd just declared war. It was torture. One day,