Giles Deacon Quotes

'Irony' is such an over-used word.

Giles Deacon

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IronyWord

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

Jerry Saltz

ArtSeeingSmokeKnowFalseScreen

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

Stephen Fry

LifeWritingMy LifeTwoDivided

I love film; I'd love to do as many films as possible.

Spencer Boldman

LovePossibleFilmManyI Love

The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Japanese territory based on international law as well as in the context of our history.

Shinzo Abe

HistoryLawContextWellJapanese

If you're going to kiss a man, let it be a beautiful man like Ed Speleers.

Rob James-Collier

BeautifulManKissYouGoingLike

The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.

Robin Marantz Henig

YearsSystemPubertyAnotherKeeps

I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers' functions and parties and things like that, and I used to get very irritated because when people heard that you came from the suburbs, they had this notion that it was very un-cool to come from there.

Ronald Frame

PeopleWritingRememberYouEarly

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

Mike Royko

PizzaAmericanCheatingPieTax

Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

Jason Mraz

Growing UpLuxuryYouGrowingKnow

I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.

Douglas Southall Freeman

HistoryMistakesManOptimismHeaven

Comfort? If a choice has to be made between style and comfort, style wins every time.

Anouska Hempel

TimeStyleChoiceComfortMadeWins

When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box.

Audra McDonald

MusicMomHometownBoxSureSing

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