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Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you…
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels…
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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa,…
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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic…
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Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
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Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
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High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted'…
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I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for…
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My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul…
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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as…
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Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.
— Wynonna Judd
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When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's…
— Robert Breault
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I feel most sexy when I'm in love. My stomach flips. I get butterflies.
— Stacey Dash
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All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you…
— Owen Hart
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Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was…
— Alex D. Linz
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
— Gabby Douglas
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A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the…
— Alberto Manguel
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Tosses her head and flips her hair, she got a whole bunch of nothing in there.
— Frank Zappa
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A microphone fiend; I make beats do back flips.
— Unknown Author
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With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is…
— Jamie Foxx
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Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels…
— Matt Groening
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Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.
— Bobby Darin
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