Circus Quotes
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When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.
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In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
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What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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The circus leaves a sweet memory.
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Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.
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In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
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Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.
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You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.
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The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.
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I have no complaints about my path and the places it has taken me; enough complaints to fill a circus tent about other things, maybe, but the path I've chosen has always been the right one, and I wouldn't have had it any other way.
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Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?
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We're like a travelling circus... We're always on the go.
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Rock n roll is like a circus today.
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A chess tournament disguised as a circus.
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But if you want to change the world, don't be afraid of the circuses.
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I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.
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Yoga is an internal practice. The rest is just a circus.
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The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.
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I had the best time I ever had on a Jim Cameron movie - True Lies, 1994. It was the single most freeing experience as an actor I've ever had. And, of course, in the midst of it there was this humungous circus that he conceived.
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By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.
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Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.
