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I was greatly influenced by 'The Goons' and 'Monty Python' reconstituting what comedy was - it could come from a funny word, not just a set up and a pay-off. I liked the zaniness; they were satirical, slightly saucy and very literary in their references.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
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I take references from the past and flip them.


Theophilus London
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Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.


Tori Amos
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It's like, now you're actually complaining because you're making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that's going to pay you that.
Eric Davis
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You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.


Peter Capaldi
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I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about finding time, scheduling, getting in and cutting the records. I make it happen and that's the name of the game. It's no excuses - you gotta figure it out.
Rico Love
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You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists.
Solange Knowles
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'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.


Dave Sim
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Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.


Matt Haig
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My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.
Mika
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
Margaret Atwood
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I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.
Jeff Koons
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People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.
Seth Rogen
People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.
Joss Whedon
There are no movie references that I can think of in 'Robopocalypse.' However, there are tons of personal references. For example, the IP address that Lurker tracks actually goes back to the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where I studied robotics.
Daniel H. Wilson
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It's easy to just go out and buy a $200 piece of clothing. The real challenge is finding it for half that.
Tim Howard
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.


Laura Riding
I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.
Nnedi Okorafor
There is a pool of references in New York and Los Angeles that are almost exclusively drawn from the media, from the world of television and advertising.
Marshall Brickman
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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.


Michael Jordan
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