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funny people seen
Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes. Maisie Williams
funny
That one wasn't so funny because he got hurt. Jarome Iginla
funny writing winning
He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions. Barbara Kingsolver
funny children gone
The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons. Augusten Burroughs
funny girl administration
I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration. Aziz Ansari
funny crazy silly
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. Ayn Rand
funny marriage witty
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. Benjamin Disraeli
funny originally referred rooms shakespeare suddenly
It's funny to be in rooms where you were originally referred to as 'The Shakespeare Guy' and to suddenly be in the position where you're 'The Blockbuster Guy.' That's a pretty unusual turnabout, I must say. Kenneth Branagh
funny political politics
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
writing important scene
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them. Brandon Sanderson
writing two my-family
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
writing journalism sometimes
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big. Anthony Shadid
writing way controversy
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
writing emotional levels
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level. Ben Marcus
writing reader
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. Ben Okri
writing night awake
I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
writing thinking talking
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.
writing funny-things discipline
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
humor
Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar. Daniel Woodrell
humorous sarcasm science
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid. Arthur Conan Doyle
humorous sarcasm reason
I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.
humor people trying
People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even Art Buchwald
humor people york
The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know? Elaine Stritch
humor problem satisfied surprise work
Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing. Kara Walker
humorous drinking mean
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.
humorous should-have quirky
Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal. Bob Costas
humorous cards records
The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card. Dennis Ritchie