Serious Business Quotes - Page 3

• I love 'The War Of The Roses,' especially as my husband is in it! I've often said to him it would be great to remake that with me and him in it, because then we could really get down to some serious business.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Husband, War, Rose

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• I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

  Steven Wright

  People, Laughing, Stuff

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• Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Teenage, Thinking

  "Actress Danica McKellar Solves For 'X'". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. August 6, 2010.

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• Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Batman; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Men, Knights, Superhero

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Soloing is serious business, because you can be seriously dead.

  John Bachar

  Serious

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• Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

  Steven Morrissey

  Simple, Laughing, Life Is

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• The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!

  Sam Hughes

  Boys, Play, Devil

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• Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation.

  Rachel Wade

  Taken, Relaxation, Fiction

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• Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  School, Mark, Very Good

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• Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.

  Dennis Overbye

  Heart, Jewels, Sifting

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• Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to one side to let the serious business of living proceed without distraction.

  Robin Boyd

  Art, Ideas, Australia

  Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

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• Russia committed an act of aggression in Ukraine, and that's the first time since 1945 a European country has seized the territory of another European country. That's serious business. They started a war with their neighbor. Their troops as well as the separatists funded and controlled by Russia are killing people just about every day.

  Daniel Fried

  Country, War, Ukraine

  Source: www.politico.com

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