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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
James Madison
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I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.


Peter O'Toole
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Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.
Peter Shaffer
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I don't even know if hip-hop is music anymore. It's definitely rhythm. It's definitely tempo. It's definitely beats per minute. But it's product. And television is product placement for the most part. It's not passion.
CeeLo Green
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Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
Jack Henry Abbott
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Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.


Chuck Jones
In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.
Per Petterson
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When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.
Reggie Jackson
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Revolutions go not backward.


Ralph Waldo Emerson
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History is a relay of revolutions.


Saul Alinsky
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All revolutions devour their own children.


Ernst Rohm
I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.
Gregg Sulkin
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Farce is a much-maligned form. It's easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.
Mark Linn-Baker
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Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary.


Wolfgang Tillmans
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Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.
Ziggy Marley
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Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.


Marjane Satrapi
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.


Edmund Burke
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.
Robbie Robertson
Well, I don't feel that I've played so many bad guys, and I'm rot really drawn to villains per se. I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.
Edward Norton