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• I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Mean Girls, Good Friend, Thinking

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• Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing. In fact, I think I sometimes detect conspiratorial plottings among my friends to protect me against my own lack of sophistication. I don't mind. I suspect that I am never quite as unsophisticated as they think I am, but I don't mind.

  Isaac Asimov

  Thinking, Mind, Facts

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• Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.

  Fabien Barthez

  Play, Spheres, Sometimes

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• By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

  Pablo Picasso

  Games, Idlers, Amusement

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• As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

  Sophie Thompson

  Writing, Play, People

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• This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

  Thomas Kretschmann

  Witty, Character, Comedy

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• I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation - with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Struggle, Heart, Games

  "This Side of Paradise". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920.

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• The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing the way in which the landscape and conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he is ready for is the one that he gets.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Character, Adventure

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Hero's Adventure)". TV Mini-Series, June 21, 1988.

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• The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. If you know any one who is gay, beguiling and amusing, you will, if you are wise, do everything you can to make him prefer your house and your table to any other; for where he is, the successful party is also.

  Emily Post

  Wise, Party, Gay

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Thinking, Funny Things, Needs

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• Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

  Arnold Bennett

  Money, Littles, Ingenuity

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

  Neil Postman

  Believe, Serious, Kind

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.121, Penguin

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• You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

  Coco Chanel

  Life, Fashion, Might

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• Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

  Laurence Sterne

  Change, Ideas, Literature

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• Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening". . .The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored. . .The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer's mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Mind, Pieces, Sake

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• I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Teenager, Cutting

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mind, Dull, Truth Is

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• As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Children, Mercy

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• Anywhere you want. Thailand, South Carolina, Brezil, Peru-- Oh, wait, no, I'm banned from Peru. I'd forgotten about that. It's a long story, but amusing if you want to hear it.

  Magnus

  Long, Waiting, South Carolina

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• Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Men, Shooting, Dear

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• The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fun, Writing, Important

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Years, Long, People

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's Own Story”

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• On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a short space of time on subjects about which one knows little, and it is indeed often amusing to see how cunningly one can steer the conversational barque, hoisting and lowering her sails, tacking this way and that to avoid reefs, and finally racing feverishly for home with the outboard engine making a loud and cheerful noise.

  Virginia Graham

  Home, Space, Feelings

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• The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

  Oscar Wilde

  New York, Dine In, Philadelphia

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1023, GENERAL PRESS

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• I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Morning, Blood, Racism

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1991). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962”

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