Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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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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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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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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The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
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And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the 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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I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.
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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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I tend to like dry humor.
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If it gets laughs, it's funny.
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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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I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
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But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.
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When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
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I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.
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Wit and humor belong to genius alone.
