Retta (Marietta Sangai Sirleaf) Quotes

I prefer to tell stories. If it's funny, then I want to do it on stage.

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• You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Hope
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  • Day

• Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
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  • Honor

• I have an unfortunate personality.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Funny
  • Personality

• Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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  • Violence

• I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
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  • Die

• Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!

  

  Tate Taylor
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  • You
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• It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
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  • Dance

• So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

  

  W. Clement Stone
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• And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I was just amazed by it. I just said, 'Hey Mom, can I do this too?' And so she signed me up for little theater classes, and I remember my first audition for a play when I was seven years old was for 'The Thankful Elf.'

  

  Dana Davis
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• I always dreamed about getting on TV and being part of a team - a funny ensemble.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
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• I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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  • Find
  • Determined

• It is the American practice to present others as guilty wherever they are defeated. Is it not funny that those with 160,000 forces in Iraq accuse us of interference?'

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • American
  • Funny
  • Present

• It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.

  

  L. Frank Baum
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• Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.

  

  Patsy Kensit
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• The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
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• I really loved making my mom laugh, and I knew that she thought that I was funny. It was really valuable, in my home growing up, to be able to have a chat and participate in a conversation and be funny. Whatever I could do to make my mom laugh could either get me out of trouble or just get me more attention or get me respect in the house.

  

  Katherine Ryan
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• I'll meet you outside," I said. No way was I actually doing to shout 'I have to pee' at the top of my lungs.

  

  Lennon Stella
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• There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.

  

  Kevin O'Leary

• I prefer to tell stories. If it's funny, then I want to do it on stage.

  

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