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There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue, when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.

~Doug Stanhope

Topics: After Brain Comedy Crafted Effortlessly Element Fact Fraudulent In Fact Months Night Off Over Rolling Root Say Things Though Tongue Weeks Years

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For me, style is about how you feel that day and what inspires you, as well as taking chances and making mistakes. Everything has to be comfortable. If things are too tight or too constricting, I feel out of my element.

~Dree Hemingway

Topics: About Chances Comfortable Day Element Everything Feel How Inspires Making Making Mistakes Me Mistakes Out Style Taking Taking Chances Things Tight Too Well You I Feel

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For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

~Dwayne Johnson

Topics: About Actor Added Advantage Brought Came Course Element Great Material Me Opportunity Take Take Advantage Wanted Well Work Written

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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

~Eckhart Tolle

Topics: Absolute Collective Dysfunction Dysfunctional Ego Element Even Frequently Insanity More Personal Point Strong

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Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

~Edith Sitwell

Topics: Baby Element Ever Get Hot Hot Water Native Never Out Seemed Since Water

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: Another Art Been Before Common Doing Done Dread Element Immaturity Modern Modern Art Symptom Unsettling

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It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.

~Edward Bok

Topics: Advertising American Any Brought Country Element Enviable Excellence Growth Literary Magazine Mechanical More Points Position Present Single Than Which

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It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

~Edward Carpenter

Topics: Been Before Close College Curious Element Gone Hall Law Legal Life Should Somewhat Tendencies Thrown Thus Touch Trinity Which

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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

~Edward Hopper

Topics: Amount Element Essential Imagination Invention Replace Skillful

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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

~Edward Norton

Topics: Avoided Element Faced Life Like Poker Risk Should

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