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• The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Up
  • Comedy

• I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Experiences

• I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Free
  • Alone
  • Credit

• Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?

  

  Ben Harper
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Morning

• I want it all - and I would like it delivered.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Want

• This will without doubt play into the hands of separatists in Kosovo and Montenegro wanting to leave the (Yugoslav) federation

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Play
  • Doubt
  • Kosovo

• What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Interesting
  • Acting
  • Process

• But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Writing
  • Free
  • Poet

• I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Generations

• I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Good
  • God
  • Daily

• I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater. He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially - shortest synopsis ever, like I'm the Cablevision guide button - it's the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven. It's by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Life
  • Men
  • American

• I still like some of the stuff, skateboarding. Just stupid things.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Stupid
  • Stills
  • Skateboarding

• I remember thinking I don't care what he does. I don't care if he beats the crap out of me. I don't care if he rapes me. I just want to get out of here alive.

  

  Ashley Smith
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Care

• If you can't do it, give up!

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Give Up
  • Can't Do

• I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

  

  James Brown
  • Play
  • Knows
  • Stuff

• We know more than we can tell.

  

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