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absurd cartoonist clown comic outside seems sort
It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well. Stephan Pastis
absurd admit course married thirty weathered
When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them. Louis Jourdan
absurd anybody becomes steal turned
I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone. John Lydon
absurd aware room
When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are. Robin McLeavy
absurd found situation
God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations. Brandon Lee
absurd plans
Our plans are small and somewhat absurd. Barbara Kingsolver
absurd further process
This process is getting a little more absurd the further we move, Charles Schumer
absurd business characters feature half identify japanese mad point related role scripts sent
About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are. Ken Watanabe
absurd complete general government led people played politics public sight situation voted
The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election. John Major
bookstore likely people strikes time
It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism. Michael Korda
bookstores hanging love people talking
I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books? Lisa Jackson
bookstores decade last learned libraries people trying
One thing libraries have learned from bookstores in the last decade is marketing. We're trying to entice people to read. Gene Nelson
bookstore crosses fine longer looks moments street
One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign. Manny Farber
bookstores love novel
I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter. J. A. Konrath
bookstore checked
I have never checked online. I've always used the bookstore because it's convenient.
bookstores upsets
I don't go into bookstores because it upsets me,
bookstore everybody found psychiatry survivors
I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust. Alice Braga
bookstore
I am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community. Graeme Simsion
french liked
When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming. Thomas Mars
french-philosopher men society union
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
french-philosopher ought power
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
french-philosopher
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
french-philosopher paradise sensible stop wanting
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
french-philosopher
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
french-philosopher men rogues
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
french-philosopher greater name shield
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
french people
There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever. Karl Lagerfeld
jewish onstage terrified willie york
I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified. Lesley Ann Warren
jewish-tradition giving vampire
Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense. Calvin Trillin
jewish marry truth
To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister. Amy Heckerling
jewish-values vision important
The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important. Avigdor Lieberman
jewish liked music people sort stopping weddings
People were sort of stopping having the traditional Jewish music in weddings and ceremonies. And I kind of liked that stuff.
jewish large presume
Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political commitments? Judith Butler
jewish ourselves regard social standing worthy
It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of the Jewish heritage. To be worthy of them, we must live up to and with them. We must regard ourselves their custodians. Louis D. Brandeis
jewish love people
I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it. Lauren Bacall
jewish record track
I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community. Anita Diament
nobody
We have no one like Brandon Roy. Nobody does. Jim Calhoun
nobody
When I wanted to become a filmmaker, there was nobody for me to look up to. Allison Anders
nobody process pulled
The process is ongoing, nobody has pulled the plug,
nobody-knows
Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride. Carolina Herrera
nobody treat
We've got nobody out there, an ambulance has to come from Jerome to treat those people.
nobody numbers
We've got it pretty well covered. The numbers out here don't matter, though. It's the numbers inside, and there's nobody in there.
nobody script speaks
With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that. Neve McIntosh
nobody watched
She was in the water. She watched it happen. There was nothing that nobody could do,
nobody win
With two outs and nobody on you feel like you're going to win a ballgame, ... We just did not get big hits. Bobby Cox
people eating-disorder body
Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people. Carre Otis
people ends process
Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place. Carol Roth
people technique should
I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people. Carol Kane
people stuff-happens critical
That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.
people source materials
They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences. Carol Leifer
people concerned
I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people. Carol Shields
people want bills
All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt. Carol Moseley Braun
people parent trying
My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.
people ordinary would-be
I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do. Carlos Beltran
thoughtful perfect levels
Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful. C. S. Lewis
thoughtful men good-man
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it. Bram Stoker
thoughtful long battle
Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come. David Quammen
thoughts-of-death repose
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose. Cesare Pavese
though
Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.
thoughts throughout
Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week. Daniel Day-Lewis
though
I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities. Louis MacNeice
thought-provoking house ceilings
When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it? Chinua Achebe
thought-provoking giving headache
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!