Alina Bronsky Quotes

“Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It’s despair – just keep laughing, until you are dead.”

Alina Bronsky

• Humor
• Despair
• Tragic

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• I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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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.

  

  Jack Lemmon
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• Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Good
  • Power
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• Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Find
  • Humor
  • Celebrate

• Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Hope
  • Despair
  • Blues

• The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Best
  • Yourself
  • Humor

• In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.

  

  Candice Glover
  • People
  • Judge
  • Humor

• I try to cope with everything through humor.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Everything
  • Humor
  • Try

• Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Humor
  • Hilarious
  • Event

• I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • School
  • Thought

• With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Trying
  • Crazy
  • Humor

• 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.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Great
  • She
  • Girl

• 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.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I tend to like dry humor.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Like
  • Humor
  • Dry

• My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Think
  • Humor

• 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.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Funny

• There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Disappointment
  • Despair
  • Satisfaction

• So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • President
  • Here

• I feel lucky guy Tomorrow when all things are shapin' Tomorrow then I'll be with you Tomorrow when your heart is achin' I'll keep on lovin' you.

  

  Dieter Bohlen Modern Talking
  • Heart
  • Tomorrow
  • Lucky Guy

• Everything in creation is just a trick of the light - the only difference between heaven and hell is who's running those lights, who's got the switch, who knows the cues.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Heaven
  • Creation
  • Hell

• “Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It’s despair – just keep laughing, until you are dead.”

  

  Alina Bronsky
  • Humor
  • Despair
  • Tragic