Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people.
Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest.
I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.
The stage gives you more control over your own work; in television, there's a distressing amount of communal writing. Unless it's your show, you have no control over that. You're at the mercy of whoever's running the show.
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.
Stephen Stills: I have distressing news.
Kim Pine: Is the news that we suck, because I really don't think I can take it.
