"I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far closer, oftentimes, than drama."

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Alissa Nutting

#Drama Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Flames Quotes

“The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.”
“I want to be a little more dramatic nowadays. I definitely want something big and funny, but I look for things that can just have people see me in a different light and let me mature as both an entertainer and an actor and a comedian.”

Source : "Comedian-actor Cedric the Entertainer". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 4, 2011.
“I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.”
“It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.”

Source : "ZZ Top". Interview with Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 04, 2004.
“Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (2007). “Collected Poems”, Carcanet Press
“And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.”
“Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.”
“My MIND POWER gave me this body.”

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