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Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.
Carson Kressley
Gay
You
Rights
Age
Skin
Physical
Color
Disability
Absurd
Concerned
Inequity
Different
Whether
Different Color
Straight
Your
Aware
On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.
Carter Burwell
Cinema
Wish
Enjoy
Admirable
John
More
Fact
Absurd
Like
Were
Very
Being
Reasons
I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.
Cate Blanchett
Remember
Thinking
Several
Absurd
Were
Play
Utterly
Playing
This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Work
Joy
Sometimes
Pride
Finished
Bit
Absurd
Feel
Like
Making
Sound
Doing
Article
Going
Really
Ceremony
Awards
Ever
Enjoyment
Recording 'Tusk' was quite absurd. The studio contract rider for refreshments was like a telephone directory.
Christine McVie
Recording
Telephone
Directory
Studio
Absurd
Like
Contract
Quite
Rider
My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.
Christopher Hitchens
Book
People
Wife
Say
Those
Would
Religious
Seems
Never
Absurd
Idea
Opened
Remote
Dear
Whole
Whom
Utterly
I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.
Claire Danes
You
Responsibility
Degree
Kid
Absurd
Know
Up
Overwhelmed
Trying
Serious
Grown
Grown-Up
Play
I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
Claire Forlani
Some
Absurd
Ready
Always
Leave
Reason
England
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow
Life
Hope
Faith
Fear
Cowardice
Childish
Alive
Easy
Immortal
Absurd
Idea
Discover
Origin
Kept
In 'John Henry Days,' I was taking my idea of junketeering and sort of blowing it up to absurd extremes.
Colson Whitehead
Extremes
John
Taking
Absurd
Idea
Days
Sort
Up
Blowing
Henry
I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility to escape that darkness. So, for me, humor is an attempt to capture everyday tragedy and everyday hopeful moments that we experience all of the time.
Colson Whitehead
Time
Good
Daily
Me
Experience
Darkness
Humor
Joke
Think
Everyday
Our
Possibility
Hopeful
Attempt
Absurd
Contains
Also
Tragedy
Escape
Form
Moments
Capture
Elements
When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now.
Craig Venter
Difficult
Biology
Would
Would-Be
Seems
Absurd
New
California
Make
Known
Because
Discovery
Diego
San
San Diego
Now
Started
University
University Of California
I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.
Danny DeVito
Funny
Alone
Think
Absurd
Know
Go
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.
David Lynch
Life
Time
Me
Comedy
Humor
Real Life
Films
Absurd
Like
Comedies
Real
Very
From Time To Time
Just
Interesting
Them
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
David Mamet
Government
People
Law
Black
Black And White
Example
White
Monstrous
Must
Ability
Somehow
Determined
Given
Only
Both
Absurd
For Example
Knows
Than
Fewer
Anyone
Acquainted
Preferences
Certain
Assessment
I knew for years I wanted to write a novel that addressed the personal trauma of my older sister, who suffered - and still suffers - from mental illness. For a long time I imagined - and I know it's absurd - that she was an indirect casualty of the Vietnam War.
David Means
War
Time
Long
Long Time
Sister
Older
Mental
Mental Illness
Indirect
Write
Casualty
Knew
Absurd
Know
She
Still
Years
Personal
Wanted
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Who
Illness
Trauma
Novel
Older Sister
Suffered
Suffers
Imagined
I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.
Debra Granik
Life
Love
Character
Comedy
Humor
Something
Absurd
Where
Use
Navigate
The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.
Derek Walcott
Experience
Caribbean
Only
Division
Absurd
African
Being
Chinese
European
I couldn't possibly have any regrets, because I've been very lucky, I've been celebrated, and I've survived. I couldn't have one single regret. That would be absurd.
Don McCullin
Regret
Single
Possibly
Would
Would-Be
Absurd
Because
Been
Very
Celebrated
Survived
Any
Regrets
Lucky
I always think it's absurd when people go, 'How can you have a show about Batman without Batman?' 'Gotham' is plenty fascinating, 'Chinatown' style.
Donal Logue
You
People
Style
Think
Batman
Plenty
About
Absurd
Without
Always
How
Go
Chinatown
Show
Fascinating
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.
Douglas Lain
Science
Dark
Dark Side
Beginning
Side
Has-Been
Touch
Had
Absurd
Genre
Science Fiction
Always
Been
Very
Irrational
Fiction
How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
Eddie Trunk
You
Better
Band
Say
Possibly
Absurd
Wrote
How
Material
Cover
Than
Created
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
Edmund White
Gay
People
Black
France
Bookstore
Say
Those
Section
Though
Would
See
About
Write
Studies
He
Absurd
Nobody
Look
French
She
Go
Subjects
Person
Even
Novelist
Ever
Jewish
I myself used to do absurd things. Yes, I mean that. I had to have a laugh, and some of the things were absurd. But they could always be worn by an elegant woman; they did not negate her elegance.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Myself
Woman
Worn
Laugh
Some
Could
Had
Absurd
Always
Were
Yes
Did
Mean
Used
Elegance
Elegant
Her
Things
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.
Emile Durkheim
Thoughts
Language
Example
Single
Healthy
Sick
Other
Strictly
Correct
Respects
Steal
Unreasonable
Drink
Mentality
He
Perfectly
Absurd
Clearly
For Example
His
Times
Person
Flaw
Use
Whose
Acts
Desire
When athletes take a knee during the National Anthem, we must ignore President Trump's absurd claim that they're 'un-American' and instead understand that it's very American to peacefully protest systemic injustice.
Eric Swalwell
Injustice
National
President
Claim
Un-American
Systemic
Must
Athletes
Take
Knee
Instead
Absurd
Protest
Understand
Anthem
National Anthem
Trump
Very
American
Ignore
Peacefully
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