"If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Jeff Baena

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“Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.”
“It's kind of pathetic actually that we are all sitting here talking about Forth. It is not the wave of the future. It's never been the wave of the future. It's not within our power to make it the wave of the future.”
“To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone ...”
“It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality.”
“Aficionado my ass...I just love to smoke cigars”
“There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.”
“We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.”

Source : Tracy Chevalier (2010). “Remarkable Creatures: A Novel”, p.182, Penguin
“You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.”

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