Witty Quotes
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I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.
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I know the bestseller 'Gone Girl' doesn't need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they come.
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If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
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The only thing that shocks me is public interest in people who shouldn't be interesting at all, like Jade Goody. We've gone past Andy Warhol and all those clever, arty and witty things that were done and said in the sixties...the fifteen minutes, and so on. Now your celebrities don't have to do anything, they're just voted in. And that shocks me.
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'Guardian' journalism itself will remain what it has always been: thoughtful, progressive, fiercely independent and challenging, and also witty, stylish, and fun.
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[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.
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A rollicking good read-THE HUNTER is steampunk with a Wild West feel. Theresa Meyers is an entertaining and witty writer with a fresh, new voice in the genre. THE HUNTER is a fun-filled ride through a world of demons, vampires, and things that go bump in the night, and kept me turning pages until the very end.
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Schumann's humor is rarely either witty or light: the unrealizable musical structure, the musical motto hidden and partly inaudible, must have stirred his musical fantasy.
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Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.
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Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.
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Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick.
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Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
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I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Stephen Sondheim is calculus for actors. The words are witty and brilliant and profound but complicated.
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Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.
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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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A fool and his words are soon parted.
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I'd like to do music in the same way - in a witty way. People think of YG artists as rarely appearing on TV but I'd like to make Big Bang fans happy through various mediums.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
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Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It's always lost on them and you'll find yourself being put back on the plane.
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When I first read 'Outlander' a few years ago, I was shocked to find that Jamie was the complete package: incredibly smart, incredibly witty, strong but emotionally vulnerable, passionate to a fault - and, well, the Scottish accent doesn't hurt! I actually stopped reading at several points to swoon over something he said... he's really that good.
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A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
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If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.
