Evelyn Underhill Quotes
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.
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I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.
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You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.
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I try to cope with everything through humor.
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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
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With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
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I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they're wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves.
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If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
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Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
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I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
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Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
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In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.
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My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
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It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.
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I've come to realize that the difference in success or failure is not how you look, how you dress, or how you're educated. It's how you think !
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There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.
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Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
