Circus Quotes
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Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.
Robert Phillips
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Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.
Norris Church Mailer
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That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.
Nigel Lythgoe
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The explanation would be a long one, because this circus is different from anything else that exists in terms of its form and artistic content. It is its own category.
Daniel Lamarre
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A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.
David Peace
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It's really wonderful to come to work and have each episode be different, in a way. They have similar structure sometimes with the villain, but we can go in any direction we want. If we want to do an episode set in the circus, we can do that. You know how precious that is. That doesn't come around a lot.
Benjamin McKenzie
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
Erica Jong
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We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.
Carol J. Adams
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Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
Erin Morgenstern
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People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big movies - not only are you writing this world that you're living in, but you're also simultaneously running a circus, and you can kind of start losing your mind like that.
Mike White
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You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.
Erin Morgenstern
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Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.
Ernst Lubitsch
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The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
Erin Morgenstern
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This circus that's advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.
James Butler Hickok
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people.
Eric Stonestreet
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Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.
Erin Morgenstern
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I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.
Francis Lawrence
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People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.
Erin Morgenstern
