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I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school, it doesn't mean you can't go big.

~Aidan Quinn

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At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.

~Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Abraham Altar Beautiful Blessed Bound Child Commit Crime Everyone Farce Father God His How Intending Isaac Knows Lad Laid Led Noble Sacrifice Slaughter Stopped Story Submitted Then Till Willingness

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

~Arthur Rimbaud

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Growing up, I was a self-loathing Igor who carried the queen's books. My job was to be the sarcastic sherpa, quietly providing the farce and adoration, then becoming part of the wall when cued.

~Betty Gilpin

Topics: Adoration Becoming Books Carried Farce Growing Growing Up Job Part Providing Queen Quietly Sarcastic Self-Loathing Then Up Wall Who

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You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

~Bono

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Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

~Chuck Jones

Topics: Comedy Farce People Real Real People Situations Unusual

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Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.

~David Gross

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The myth of Naipaul... has long been a farce.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Been Farce Long Myth

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Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Actor Being Comedy Day Drama Farce Like Low One Day Performance Really Repertory Running Scenes Show Tragedy Where You

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