"You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry."

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Source : "A study in emotion" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

Penelope Wilton

#Laughing Quotes #Trying Quotes #Comedy Quotes

“Saying that cultural objects have value is like saying that telephones have conversations.”

Source : "A Year with Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.
“Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.”
“Many people see happiness only in their future.”

Source : François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.27, Gallic Books
“I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.”
“I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
“One good turn deserves another.”

Source : Petronius Arbiter (1999). “The Satyricon”, p.36, Oxford University Press, USA
“It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.”

Source : Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.147, Penguin

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