Flamboyant Quotes

• Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.

  Danny Boyle

  Giving, Way, Stage

  "Danny Boyle: 'As soon as you think you can do whatever you want... then you're sunk'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

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• You don't need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.

  Lena Dunham

  Needs

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.191, Random House

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• To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Clever, Kind, Benign

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• There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

  Katherine Dunn

  Brain, Behaviour, Mediocrity

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Jan 29, 2012

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• I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

  Usher

  Guy, Type, Versions

  "Who's Cooler Than Liberace? / Hip-hop's Usher can relate to pianist" by Liz Smith, www.sfgate.com. October 24, 2000.

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• Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.

  Catherine Tate

  Children, Shy, Bits

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• If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

  Beryl Markham

  Wisdom, Perseverance, Business

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.170, Open Road Media

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• The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Labels, Genius

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• Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion!

  Johnny Weir

  Men, Glitter, Occasions

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• I have a big, flamboyant, open personality, which I think is why people may be saying these nice things about me.

  Kate Hudson

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

  George McGovern

  War, Records, World

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• It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

  David Canary

  Fun, Two, Doe

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• My uncle, who was a little more flamboyant, always said the guy who dressed the best was Fred Astaire.

  Andy Garcia

  Uncles, Guy, Littles

  "Man of Style - Andy Garcia". Interview with Mark Morrison, www.oocities.org. January 1999.

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• I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.

  Little Richard

  Hair, Clothes, Long

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• Men's clothes are becoming kind of mod. They're becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage.

  Liberace

  Men, Clothes, Becoming

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• I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.

  Charlie Bewley

  Sides, Homosexual, Borderline

  "Skewed and Reviewed Talks with "New Moon" Volturi". sknr.net. November 12, 2009.

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• It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Destiny, Might, Chance

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

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• I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private about it. She - when I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. So I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.

  Michael Shannon

  Mother, Religious, Growing Up

  "Going Under The 'Boardwalk' With Michael Shannon". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 14, 2012.

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• The first thing we noticed was how flamboyant [Dalton] Trumbo was in real life.

  Jay Roach

  Real, Real Life, Firsts

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international art. History shows that it may well be the opposite. It may be that it is the odd, the personal, the curious, the simply honest, that at this moment, when everyone looks to the extreme and flamboyant, constitutes the most interesting manifestation of the spirit of art.

  Patrick Swift

  Art, Opposites, Interesting

  "Official Art and the Modern Painter". "X, A Quarterly Review" Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, November 1959.

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• Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley... Amarcord seems almost to flow from the camera, as anecdotes will flow from one who has told them often and knows they work. This was the last of his films made for no better reason than Fellini wanted to make it.

  Roger Ebert

  Guilt, Cameras, Anecdotes

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• I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Suffering, Our Society, Culture

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• We don't have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where's the classic pop-rock showman?

  Adam Lambert

  Stars, Men, Rocks

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• Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent.

  Richard Hammond

  Italian, Car, Mexican

  "Despite Host Controversy, Amazon Takes A Chance On 'Top Gear'". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. July 31, 2015.

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• I'm not a flamboyant artist.

  Rakim

  Artist

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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