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It's terribly easy to be well dressed. It's much more difficult to be badly dressed.


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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.
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My first customer is myself. When I tell a story I like, I can sleep easy. I'm sorry when audiences don't like it, but I have no choice.
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It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world.
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One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.
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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.


Gustave Flaubert
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
Hart Crane
At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. It's a hard feeling to shake off. Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.


John Mortimer
Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
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That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.
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Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.


Chuck Jones
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
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A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.
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What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy is more free-form and more relatable.
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