"I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up."

Wagner, Jane on cynics and cynicism
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"Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation."

Stanislavisky, Konstantin on talent   

"Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love."

Hazlitt, William on sarcasm   

"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."

Williams, Tennessee on sensitivity
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"Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation."

Marcus, Greil on rock and roll   

"The rich aren't like us; they pay less taxes."

Vries, Peter De on riches   

"Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is."

Anouilh, Jean on riches
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"Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability."

Winters, Shelley on respectability   

"Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it."

Bruce, Lenny on sarcasm   

"The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity."

Millet, Kate on romance and romanticism   

"I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre."

Keeffe, Barrie on theater   

"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."

Reagan, Ronald on unemployment
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"I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices."

Twain, Mark on vice
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"Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time."

Fleming, Ian on sex
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"Youth has become a class."

Vadim, Roger on youth   

"Youth is a period of missed opportunities."

Connolly, Cyril on youth
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"Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight."

Ferber, Edna on writers and writing
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"Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging."

Dennis, Patrick on writers and writing   

"The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps."

Benchley, Robert on writers and writing
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"The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife."

Connolly, Cyril on wives   

"Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun"

Henley, Don on violence
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"In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings."

Hitchcock, Alfred on villains
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"Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute."

Wilder, Thornton on vice   

"The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come."

Ustinov, Peter on optimism
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"Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment."

O'Rourke, P. J. on optimism   

"If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse."

Sutherland, Joan on opera   

"My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer."

Jagger, Mick on occupation   

"Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable."

Gleason, Jackie on obesity   

"I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did."

Arbuckle, Fatty on obesity   

"I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine."

Reed, Lou on nostalgia   

"People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable."

Jagger, Mick on nostalgia   

"Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on nonsense   

"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."

West, Mae on personality
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"People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored."

Morgan, Henry on personality
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"There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself."

Hazlitt, William on public
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"I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the f word."

Carter, Helena Bonham on profanity   

"Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?"

Millet, Kate on privacy
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"Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite."

Brando, Marlon on privacy
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"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting."

Leonard, Gloria on pornography
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"There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, Did you get an erection? If the answer is Yes from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic."

Auden, W. H. on pornography