Amelia Barr Quotes
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
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I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.
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Laughter drives shouting away.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.
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When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.
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During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
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I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
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Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
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Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.
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Life is a jest;Take the delight of it.Laughter is best;Sing through the night of it.Swiftly the tearAnd the hurt and the ache of itFind us down here;Life must be what we make of it.
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There are so many elements flying in so many different directions that you really have to go with what feels like instinctively. The nature of the universe is fairly whimsical and nonsensical. In the most somber, beatific peacefulness there's complete chaos and maniacal laughter. I think music that doesn't reflect that is boring.
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Voices were blended and intermingled in a tumultuous swirl around which eddied laughter, shouts, the squeaking of doors and windows, piano and accordion music, rollicking handclaps, a policeman's bark, braying, grunts, coughs of hashish addicts and screams of drunkards, anonymous calls for help, raps of a stick, and singing by individuals and groups.
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Over seven thousand US veterans die of suicide every year, which is funny... false laughter... because you'd think they'd die over there, but they come home! Right? I thought that must be funny, because nobody was taking it that seriously.
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Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.
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And then afterwards I worked in advertising for a year which taught me about writing even when you don't want to (laughter) because there's never a moment that you want to write about an Erickson cell phone but you have to. And that's really important you know obviously for the...like if you really want to write, you have to write every day no matter how you feel or you know. And then, yeah, and then I ended up working in TV and then from TV into movies and then directing, so.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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I've written for The Times because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The New Statesman magazine also asked me to write an article, but they didn't want to pay me anything. To me, that shows how much they value quality journalism.
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Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
