Gerald Priestland Quotes

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland

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• Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Literature
  • Secret
  • Western

• I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Funny
  • Me

• I have an unfortunate personality.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Funny
  • Personality

• The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Words
  • Funny
  • Hate

• Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Situation
  • Saying

• 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
  • Funny
  • Die

• The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!

  

  Vera Wang
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Beach

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Secret
  • Media

• I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Long
  • Live

• I went from 250 to, like, 175 in three and a half, four months. And then I ended up graduating with honors. I went from a 2.4 to a 3.06 in a year. It's funny how those two are related. I don't want to say that if you lose weight, you'll get smarter, but... well, it worked for me.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • Up
  • Funny

• Men, who certainly possess not only the savvy but also the know-how to be funny, for some reason, are just not. I began to notice this at a pretty young age, and unfortunately, a lifetime of living - and not a little bit of regret - hasn't done much to convince me otherwise.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Men
  • Done
  • Age

• I know how to be funny to black audiences.

  

  Brandon T. Jackson
  • Black
  • Funny

• It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Good
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Experience

• It's a bit like school camp, shooting a film. Everyone's on heat. It's a strange energy. It's full of adrenalin. I funnel my excess energy in funny little ways. I do a lot of dancing in my trailer. I love music.

  

  Alice Englert
  • Music
  • School
  • Energy

• A lot of my stories about the old days, they're delicious and funny. But every time I recall the early days, it's painful. With every anecdote, it's painful because you're summoning up the terribly, terribly difficult life of my parents. And it's painful because I didn't realize at the time how hard it was for them.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

  

  Danny DeVito
  • Funny
  • Alone

• A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Up
  • Society
  • Pain

• 'Moonlight' changed me. To see people so moved by this movie inspires me to find something else to offer. And maybe the next one touches only five people or maybe just one person. To me, you know, that would still be worth it.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Movie
  • Worth

• If you've gone to a sci-fi convention, you've only seen half of it. 'Con Man' delivers what convention 'all-access' passes have only promised in the past.

  

  Alan Tudyk
  • Past

• The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must emphasize this old truth, because for about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin. And this, of course, could not but reflect negatively on the position of the party and its work.

  

  Anastas Mikoyan
  • Truth
  • Leadership
  • Cult

• Every Hermes scarf has a tale.

  

  Christina Binkley

• Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

  

  Gerald Priestland
  • Funny
  • Secret
  • Journalist