Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
Roy Blount, Jr.
Recitation: by Male by Female
Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.
Joan Armatrading
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I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
Jesse Ventura
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For years, we have had many coaches in football, but there are no teachers anymore. And you see that in the play itself.
Johan Cruyff
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Washington is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.
Meghan McCain
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When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
John Oliver
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For me, politics is about passion. It doesn't matter what you know; it's your actions that count. I meet people who say they're socialists, and that's not what they carry out in their everyday life.
Maxine Peake
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Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.
Mattie Stepanek
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Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.
Miroslav Vitous
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I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.
Demi Moore
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I need and want to see capable women. I don't like to see them weep all the time.
Debra Granik
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You can get fake fur, which, if that's what you want - if you want that fur look - it looks just the same. It's really unnecessary to skin an animal when you can get something that looks just the same without hurting anything.
Christian Serratos
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I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.
Clifford Geertz
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