When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.Michel de Montaigne
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My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.Thomas Kretschmann
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I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.Maggie Smith
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The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get away with it.Randy Rainbow
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It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.Roxane Gay
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When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.David Bowie
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Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news. But on radio, believe it or not, we have notes and scripts. And while we might ad lib the odd wryly amusing asides, they come at the frequency of a suburban bus. About one every 90 minutes.Evan Davis
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We live in a world in which there are many live things other than human beings, and many of these things can seem beautiful and amusing and interesting to us if they can catch our attention and if we can step back from our crabbed and limiting and lonely anthropocentricity to consider them.Sue Hubbell
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.Charles Baudelaire
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Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!Fay Wray
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.J. K. Rowling
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The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.Orison Swett Marden
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The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.Charlie Brooker
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What people don't understand is that when I hear what somebody has said about me, I wonder, 'Don't you know what they are saying about you, too?' It's quite amusing.Gauri Khan
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But honestly, much of the work that I have done has had some impact on me. It's something that I have realised only later. I also find it amusing that the memories of actors are so consciously constructed around what happened to that piece of work, in terms of audience reception or box-office results.Rasika Dugal
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.H. L. Mencken
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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
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We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let's be kinder, gentler, more amusing company. Let's take our own hand and say, 'There, there, sister. You're doing a good job. I'm proud of how you're handling all this craziness down here. Don't give up. Carry on, warrior.'Glennon Doyle Melton
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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.Nicolas Chamfort
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Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.Josephine Baker
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No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone's had enough of me to last a month.Anne Frank
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Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.Alexei Sayle
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Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.Richard Gere
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It was great fun to hang around the Beatles. They had amazingly fast minds, and they were incredibly amusing and funny and witty. They were great. There was a very high energy surrounding them.Pattie Boyd
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But floating for an extended period is truly amazing. My brain is constantly trying to figure out which way is up. It's an interesting challenge, one I find slightly amusing.Victor J. Glover
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I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.Nana Mouskouri
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Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.William Shatner
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Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be concise and amusing, to keep everyone listening.Pamela Druckerman
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Everyone has been in a social situation where you say something and it goes unnoticed, then someone else says the same thing and everyone laughs a lot. You learn how to be more creative and whacky and amusing.Sloane Crosley
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I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.Israel Horovitz
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I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.Iris Apfel
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I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.Allison Pearson
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There's nothing less funny than somebody trying to be funny. I loved Jack Dee, then I met him and I became the least funny human to exist because of my desperation to say something amusing.Romesh Ranganathan
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Never in my life did I think I would be walking down the street and people would shout 'Jesus!' at me in the street. It's quite amusing.Tom Payne
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Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.James Anthony Froude
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I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.Anne Frank
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I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.Bob Newhart
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Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.Robert Greene
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Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so it's amusing that people like it!Richard C. Armitage
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Paul Ryan's love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades.Tom Morello
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I find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?'Ray Bradbury
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I was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites.Brent Faiyaz
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St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.John Dyer
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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.Logan Pearsall Smith
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Because work takes up a lot of time, you have to choose your moments for really letting rip. I hang out with my friends and my family and I spend time with my kids when I'm not working. They don't see my being an actor as exotic. For them, it's just an everyday thing. Sometimes it's amusing to them and other times, embarrassing.Aidan Gillen
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'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' - I had a lot of friends who told me to watch it. And I was like, 'I'm not buying seven seasons of a frickin' show.' It got to the point where, 'Seriously, you have to watch it.' Buffy is not my favorite, but it's amusing.Retta
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Listen to really old blues guys and how they weren't allowed to sing about what they meant; they alluded to things. I find that style amusing, and I think it's a little harder to write.Dusty Hill
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There is something quite amusing about someone who is relentlessly positive and wants to be everyone's friend in a cynical world.Lolly Adefope
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For a lot of actors, there's a sort of code of honor around playing something other than yourself, which I just don't have. I love feeling like I'm - I won't even say acting out, but performing in some deep seam of my consciousness or my family's consciousness or my past. That's really amusing to me.Tilda Swinton
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