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“I dont have a place that I call home at the moment because theres no point. I mean, Im a traveling circus for a while. Its weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, theres nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But Ive kind of gotten used to it.”

Ifs Kind Mean Moments Home Wanted Used Hotel Circus No Point Nowhere To Go

Author:Idris Elba

“Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.”

Able Can Do Change Team Feet Football Balls Speed Technique Passing Passings Mates Circus Great Football Team Mate

Author:Johan Cruijff

“Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that's the player people think is great. I say he has to go to a circus.”

People Thinking Running Games Change Four Player Air Football Balls Opponents Circus Defenders

Author:Johan Cruijff

“I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.”

Thinking Seeing Media Shock Circus

Author:Francesca Annis

“Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.”

People Long Two Care Vote Casts Tyranny Bread Command Two Things Circus Legion Bread And Circuses

Book:Juvenal and Persius

Source: Juvenal and Persius

“I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.”

Trying Growing Media Down And Circus Learning And Growing

Author:Georgie Fame

“The vector equilibrium is the zero point for happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty theater and empty circus and empty universe ready to accommodate any act and any audience.”

Universe Audience Ready Happenings Empty Theater Zero Circus Equilibrium Accommodate Vectors

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.”

Knows World Way Shows Shade Show Business Circus Microcosm

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“I think there are times when I believe God welcomes the circus into our lives to give us an opportunity to show that there’s another way to live and respond to things.”

Thinking Way Giving Believe Shows Opportunity I Believe Our Lives Believe In God Another Way Circus Way To Live

Author:Tony Dungy

“The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.”

Law Walks Horse Bones Muscles Circus Englishmen Legality

Author:Maxim Gorky

“I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter.”

Moments Joy Dies Wish Sound Morning Streets Performances Busy Crowds Glorious Encounters Circus Trumpets Countryside Early Morning Gongs Wish To Die

Author:Ai Qing

“I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.”

Humor Funny Saws Dog Fronts Amount Humorous Sitting Mirrors Meetings Satisfaction Shops Elsewhere Circus Entrances Examining

Book:The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.”

Hung Clown Circus Peg

Author:P. T. Barnum

“I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Able Can Do Successful Being Successful You Can Do It Circus Of Context

Author:James Iha

“There are always those Gossip Girl walk-and-talk scenes where you're walking and just talking about life and death. You're having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it's literally a circus.”

Eye Girl Walks Talking Serious Walking Scene Conversation Life And Death Gossip Circus Gossip Girl

Author:Chace Crawford

“I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.”

Done Behinds Keys Europe Train Newspapers Russia Serving Eastern Circus Bicycle Eastern Europe Balkans

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.”

Long Bigs Film Suffering Father Saws Amount Cost Circus

Author:Danny Huston

“Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.”

Shows Eye Pain Animal Training Abuse Method Entertainment Strikes Brutal Right Time Circus Theatrical Wild Animal Confinement Retaliation Animal Abuse

Author:Tippi Hedren

“It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.”

Wells Shows Lying Animal Behinds Huge Rhetoric Circus Theatrical Attending Wild Animal

Author:Tippi Hedren

“Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.”

Way Actors Praying Live Life Circus Trapeze

Book:The Happy Hoofer

Source: The Happy Hoofer

“But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.”

Thinking Children Running Certain Actors Share Elements Approach Denied Running Away Circus Pragmatic

Author:Toby Jones

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