There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.
James Nesbitt
GreatMeJournalismIronyPlaying
In a broader sense, the irony in all of this is the single most necessary element for life to exist, in fact, is killing everything, from our ecosystems to potentially our food supply if we're poisoning fish and the foods that we eat. That is the broader sense.
Erin Brockovich
LifeFoodFishIronyEatEverything
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
Charles Lamb
BlessedYouIronyYourClapVein
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.
Al Yankovic
PeopleCareerIronyOverYearsThan
I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.
Carolyn Kizer
EndingBackSaidLettersIronyMail
England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
Mads Mikkelsen
YouFindIronyHumourSenseDenmark
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
Barbara Kruger
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It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
Jock Sturges
GovernmentSmallIronyUpWould
It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children.
John Lithgow
ChildrenPeopleYouAchieveIrony
And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.
Steve Carlton
BetterIronyWithoutAccessWrote
There are elements of irony in my work, of course.
Martin Parr
WorkIronyCourseElements
Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.
Clive Sinclair
IgnoranceEndIronyWithoutMade
I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.
Penn Jillette
AgePeopleThinkVegasIronySense
Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.
Mark Canton
GreatPlaceHollywoodIronyTimes
Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.
James Gray
ArtBelieveSituationEmotionsIrony
When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony.
Eric McCormack
IronyWithoutSenseBetweenAny
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
Charles Baudelaire
IronyTwoQualitiesLiterary
Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.
Wes Studi
LifeIronyFavoriteAspects
Everyone that is not an ultra-conservative recognizes the irony of FOX's 'Fair and Balanced' moniker, which only accentuates its actual bias.
Daniel Lubetzky
BiasFoxFairIronyEveryoneOnly
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
ChaosIronyConsciousnessAgility
Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.
Jiang Wen
ConstructionTheatreKeyBadIrony
All of Vegas is false. There's a false Paris, a false Venice, a false Baghdad - in fact, all of the early Vegas aesthetic is Baghdad, which is also the irony. It's 'Aladdin,' the sands, 'One Thousand and One Nights.'
Robert Lepage
AestheticVegasEarlyParisIrony
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
Sol LeWitt
ArtIronyNot InterestedIdeaMaking
With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being created.
Michel Hazanavicius
BetterYouSilentEmotionIronyOff
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